🚀 go-pugleaf

cosar@ulysses.cs.umn.edu (A. Cosar) writes:

>What will you do now? Join the 'trying to contact by junk-mailing' mob?
>That's what your pen-pal (Paul Pomes, the so-called 'postmaster' of UIUC.EDU) 
>did after all...

Listen, my intentions are something like this.  I saw a lot of people,
many of them respected net.citizens (such as Paul Pomes, who I've had
the pleasure to work with on several occasions over the years),
complaining about this site which appears to be based in Minnesota.  I
looked into it a bit and noticed that your site was helping to
propagate the material people were complaining about and I, being a
relatively nice person I like to think, was trying to be helpful and
see if you were aware of what this person on zuma.UUCP was doing.

You are obviously not ignorant of Usenet and are aware of your actions
and the actions of the site to which you provide a feed.  

As a person local to all of this, I thought it a rather responsible
thing of me to try some form of communication.  Other people in
news.admin.policy had little luck trying to contact you via email.

Usenet is an anarchy with some social conventions that people *usually*
choose to follow.  And as long as someone is willing to feed you and
zuma.UUCP, you can spew out whatever y'all want.  There is clearly
nothing I can do either in cutting the garbage or education; I can
happily add all of this to my killfiles and go about my business.

take care
-- 
Jason Molenda, University of Minnesota, Supercomputer Inst., Technical Support
SGI Iris Admin        molenda@jason.msi.umn.edu       DoD #1867     '77 CB750F