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Maybe a subject filter? Or delete the newsgroup?
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"Jim_Higgins" wrote in message ... Maybe a subject filter? Or delete the newsgroup? I have been on-and-off Usenet for almost 20 years. The net is an anarchistic collective of independent sites. There is no central authority to take action against a user. My advice is to ignore it. Political rants are a given on the net, so roll with the punches. If you must take action, start by writing email to the person in question explaining that you're offended and asking them to cease the off topic posts. This is liable to net you a response consisting of either an email bounce or a tirade of the vulgarest language you've ever seen, don't be surprised when that happens. Next, write to the system administrator at that user's site. " should get it there. Depending on the sysadmin, this will get you a coarse reply, a terse "Free speech forever!" reply, be ignored completely, or maybe there's even a very slim possibility that some action will actually be taken. Again, my advice is to roll with the punches. It's about all you can realistically do, and IMHO getting in a flame war is not worth it. Tom Rogers http://tdrogers.com/ |
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