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- From: kadie@dante.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [alt.censorship] Re: Public posting of private e-mail.
- Message-ID: <199208251942.AA03083@dante.cs.uiuc.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 09:42:44 GMT
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- From: morgan@ms.uky.edu (Wes Morgan)
- Subject: Re: Public posting of private e-mail.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug24.92353.3596@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 13:23:53 GMT
-
- sbradley@scic.intel.com (Seth Bradley) writes:
- >I agree that one should be able to stop offending e-mail.
-
- Sure! There are several "mail filtering" programs available; one of the
- best of these is "procmail", which is availabel from many FTP sites. Get
- procmail and install it; you can then filter your mail to your heart's
- content.
-
- >However, before
- >one posts private e-mail, there is another step that can be taken, namely
- >mailing to the offender's sysadmin. From (second hand) personal experience,
- >this is often effective.
- > [ ... ]
- >The main point is, talking to a sysadmin is likely to be far more
- >effective than posting e-mail.
-
- The effectiveness of "talking to a sysadmin" varies greatly. If the site
- is commercial, you may very well succeed. If, however, the site is aca-
- demic, your chances are "not so good".
-
- I'm the sysadmin for the UK College of Engineering (engr.uky.edu, NOT
- ms.uky.edu (from which this posting originates)), and I routinely receive
- messages such as "your user XXXX called me a YYYYY on the mailing list!
- Terminate his email NOW!". I usually get a chuckle from this. I've never
- rescinded a user's email privileges; with the exception of illegal activi-
- ties (emailing pirate software after repeated warnings, for example), I
- doubt that I ever will.
-
- One must accept the good with the bad. If you enjoy full communications
- privileges (and wish them extended to others), you WILL, eventually, be
- offended. It's part of the virtual territory.
-
- --Wes
-
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