Greetings,
Before I go off and do something rash, I thought I would solicite
some input.  A chain letter has hit our Listserv lists, and I served
the person off and sent a note of explanation.  Below is the reply
I received from the person [log in to unmask]  I also received a
reply from the Manager of Computing Services at York who said that
the Computer Coordinator of his system will have a chat with this
person.  Is this enough?  From the reply below, my serving him off
will not stop this person from posting to more lists.  Even if we all
added him to our filters, there is USENET.  I have very little
patience with these issues, as some of you know...a personality flaw
I guess.  My first reaction is to ask my Director to call his Director
and kill the userid....but my involvement with this group has taught me
that I act too quickly and I can be a bit harsh.  I'm also reacting to
the numerous complaints from subscribers of this group we host who have
to pay for every email they get..they are not happy... and this is a
large list with a lot of international subscribers...sigh.   What would
you all do?  Please feel free to e-mail me personally as i don't want this
to take up a lot of list time.  Your insight and experience is much
appreciated.
 
Thanks for your input.  --Trish
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From [log in to unmask] Jul 11 20:15:03 1995
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 16:22:03 -0500 (EST)
From: [log in to unmask]
To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Your Removal From ASACNET due to sending Chain letter
Resent-Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 20:11:56 -0400 (EDT)
Resent-From: Trish Forrest <postmast>
Resent-To: Trish Forrest <trish>
 
Dear Ms Forrest:  I received your message.  My understanding is that
commercial or political messages are considered undesirable on
discussion groups like ASACNET.  My hands are ethically clean -- I gain
nothing personally from spreading a message against nuclear testing.  My
ecosystem, and the ecosystem our son must live in, is not.  Apparently,
you prefer to support ecological destruction to maintain the purity of
your net.  Given the ethical and intellectual level of discussion on
ASACNET and throughout business schools generally, I can't say that you
are depriving me of very much by throwing me out.  You may be losing
something, though.  I assume you have no children or other reasons to
be concerned about the destruction of Earth.
Chris Robinson