[net.suicide] Please stop sending hate mail

bimmler (03/15/83)

I was appalled to discover, after returning from my teaching assignment
in Goettingen, that someone has been using my login to spread malice
and dissention through USENET.

I cannot understand what motives might have inspired this misuse of
my login on a BTL research machine.  What possible amusement could
there have been that could not have been obtained by the culprit using
his own login or forging a synthetic one, which Lord knows is easy
enough.

I have, of course, changed the password on my account, and asked the
system administrator (rabbit!ark) of rabbit to do what he can to
prevent any further abuse of my login.

What I cannot do is to repair the damage that has been done to the net.
I have a mailbox full of messages berating me for articles none of which
I have ever seen.  I have never either read or submitted an article to
net.suicide or to any other news group other than net.nlang.

E. Bimmler