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Article #105Re: Problems running boards with controversial stuff?
From: Jerome Grimmer
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 14:18
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 14:18
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In a previous article, cslewis@vesta.unm.edu () says: >I will soon be starting a BBS and have some questions for sysops >who operate BBS's which deal with controversial things (hacker >stuff, adult material, far-out politics...) > >Have you encountered any legal harassment? Or have the feds mellowed >out and learned something since Operation Sun Devil? no legal harassment yet. > >Have you encountered any anger/harassment from narrow minded people >who can't accept that other people believe different things? Any >threatening letters? Damage to your system...? my users understand that flames in public areas are not tolerated and will be summarily deleted by me, the SysOp. If a user has a complaint about another user flaming him/her in private E-mail, the user receiving the flames should leave me e-mail and I will begin doing //MAILR commands (I run WWIV 4.21, //MAILR reads all mail on the system. I only do this if I have received a complaint from a user about another user. > >What has the experience been like overall? Difficult...? the experience has not been difficult, my users understand that they are to keep an open mind, they also know that I do not tolerate personal attacks on another user in public areas. > >I look forward to hearing from others who have dealt with these issues. >Post replies, or send e-mail. > Sorry, I didn't know where to clip the above... Jerome Grimmer SysOp of Starship Enterprise BBS, +1 618 549-5351 -- "I'm the Sage! I know *everything*!//Like, okay. How, like, does BitNet oper- ate?\\Operate, schmoperate. The programmers were drunk out of their minds when they designed it. If it wasn't for m00sey intervention it wouldn't work at all From "Rad" ep. 58 by Swede@Drycas.Bitnet. Email ap429@po.cwru.edu 4 more info.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cleveland.Freenet.Edu!ap429 From: ap429@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jerome Grimmer) Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc Subject: Re: Problems running boards with controversial stuff? Message-ID: <1992Jul23.141831.1993@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Date: 23 Jul 92 14:18:31 GMT References: <-hgmhph@lynx.unm.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ins.cwru.edu Reply-To: ap429@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jerome Grimmer) Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA) Lines: 46 Nntp-Posting-Host: cwns1.ins.cwru.edu