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- 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
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- Reply-To: ap429@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jerome Grimmer)
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- In a previous article, cslewis@vesta.unm.edu () says:
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- >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.
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- >
- >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...?
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- 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.
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- >
- >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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