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- From: kbibb@maui.qualcomm.com (Ken Bibb)
- Subject: Re: A R G I C allows itself far too much
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- References: <1992Dec29.180509.12126@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1992Dec30.034943.11215@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> <C04ID2.Mv9@polaris.async.vt.edu> <1993Jan2.015508.9513@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 21:24:57 GMT
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- In <1993Jan2.015508.9513@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) writes:
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- >From a News.admin.policy
- >standpoint though, is there an ethical problem to post under an
- >alias and a non-responding (or fake, depending on circumstances)
- >user ID to avoid professional embarassment?
-
- I consider it a problem when people are posting from a site where
- you can't email the individual directly. I also consider having
- unresponsive system admin personnel at a feed site (anatolia, not
- mn.org) to also be a problem.
-
- If a person is willing to say something, then they should be
- willing to say it from an account where they are reachable.
- This policy shouldn't apply to the alt.* hierarchy, necessarily,
- but I think it should apply to the "professional" hierarchies.
-
- (Note: I did not say that they have to use their "real-life"
- names. Some people (Bill Joy, Kenneth Thompson, for example)
- are God-like beings who would be swamped with pleas for help
- in vi ("how do I change a character?") or unix ("how do I create
- a process?"). Since they have better things to do (and deserve
- some peace and quiet), I think they should have a fake account
- where they can flame without fear. But they should (and probably
- do) have addresses where email can reach them so that others
- can personally respond, for times when public responses don't
- appear to be appropriate.)
-
- --
- Ken Bibb "he heard the snow falling faintly through the
- kbibb@qualcomm.com universe and faintly falling, like the descent of
- jester@crash.cts.com their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
- --"The Dead", James Joyce
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