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Article #855Re: Jail postmasters
From: Andrew Poling
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1989 02:02
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1989 02:02
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In article <496@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> pjd@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Peter J. Dotzauer) writes: >I do not believe in the death penalty, but I propose stiff sentences >for postmasters who repeatedly ignore inquiries. > >Does have anyone a better idea of improving this human component of >networking? Like Brian (sorta) said: be kind to him. Chances are he's some poor harrassed fellow who got stuck with the job because no-one else either could or would do it. I gotta protest the suggestions of waging pseudo-terrorism by grep-ing /usr/spool/news and mailing everybody you see, etc. This is likely to only cause irritation and alot of needless mail activity. My best suggestion is to talk to your local postmaster - he should be aware of the various methods for contacting responsible people on various networks. Perhaps he can even solve your problem without involving people at remote sites. Andy (have you kissed your postmaster today?) Poling Andy Poling Internet: andy@gollum.hcf.jhu.edu Network Services Group Bitnet: ANDY@JHUVMS Homewood Academic Computing Voice: (301)338-8096 Johns Hopkins University UUCP: mimsy!aplcen!jhunix!gollum!andy
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!aplcen!jhunix!ecf_hap From: ecf_hap@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Andrew Poling) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Jail postmasters Message-ID: <3424@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Date: 29 Nov 89 02:02:01 GMT References: <496@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: ecf_hap@jhunix.UUCP (Andrew Poling) Followup-To: comp.mail.misc Distribution: usa Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF Lines: 28