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- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!cs.uiuc.edu!kadie
- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [news.admin.policy, et al.] Re: Babak Sehari postings -- iastate.edu is dealing
- Message-ID: <C0Hntz.30H@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Followup-To: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,news.admin.policy,news.admin.misc
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:49:11 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- [A repost - Carl]
-
- Newsgroups: news.admin.policy,news.admin.misc
- From: skunz@iastate.edu (Steven L Kunz)
- Subject: Re: Babak Sehari postings -- iastate.edu is dealing
- Message-ID: <skunz.726270536@corvette.cc.iastate.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:48:56 GMT
-
- In <1icf6mINN8r7@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
-
- >The poster flooding the net with copies of the same message in every newsgroup
- >is being dealt with. When I started seeing the messages, I sent mail to the
- >News administrator at his site asking for something to be done about it, and I
- >just got back this mail message (which I consider OK to post since it's a form
- >letter that was sent out to anyone who wrote to the news administrator of the
- >site about the problem):
-
- >-----
- > [form letter email reply about this topic from skunz@iastate.edu]
-
- I really should have posted the email-reply I was sending out here (in
- newsgroups news.admin.misc and news.admin.policy) to start with - sorry.
-
- I promise you all it IS being handled. He started an automatic posting
- process for what was probably every newsgroup on the net. He started it
- from multiple machines and let it run. The "postmaster" here had at least
- 50 email messages off the net regarding this, I (as news admin) had at least
- that many (and they are still coming in). What a waste of a lot of people's
- time a resources ...
-
- Of course Mr. Babak Sehari had a "few" items in his mail-box, too. Since I
- was Cc'd to many mailings I KNOW he got a lot of "innovative ideas" on what
- to do with his posts.
-
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- Steven L. Kunz
- Networked Applications | Usenet News Admin.
- Iowa State University Computation Center, Iowa State University, Ames IA
- INET: skunz@iastate.edu BITNET: gr.slk@isumvs.bitnet
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- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent any organization; this is just me.
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