jbuck@epicen.UUCP (Joe Buck) (06/09/85)
In an incredible display of maturity, Alex Quilici of UCLA put a Followup-To line that will send all followups to his message to net.abortion and net.lang.pascal. Here's the offending header: From: alex@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: What people look for in MOTAS Message-ID: <5856@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: 5 Jun 85 08:21:38 GMT References: <681@udenva.UUCP> <1560060@acf4.UUCP> Reply-To: trainor@ucla-cs.UUCP (Alex Quilici) Followup-To: net.abortion, net.lang.pascal << here it is Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 20 Keywords: reject, loser, fool Summary: NYU joins TEXAS and UCSD Some child did this previously to route inappropriate messages into net.micro.mac, and here we go again. I'm sending this to net.abortion and net.lang.pascal so readers of those lists will know what's going on. net.flame is there because I'm pissed off (you asshole!). net.news is there because I think something should be done about this kind of behavior. Should the software make it more difficult to use the Followup-To line? I'm not so sure that's a good idea. For example, I'm using it here for its intended purpose - so discussions of this message won't appear in net.abortion and net.lang.pascal. Should a certain person be thrown off the net? That may be a little severe. Any suggestions? I expect to get several flames from people asserting their right to act childish and have the net pay for it. I hope this message won't do more harm than good. I can see it now; soon all the children will be doing Followup-To tricks. > Lucky for us the quarter ends soon and your class account goes away. > > Alex With any luck, your account will go away as well, along with you. Jerk! -- Joe Buck Entropic Processing, Inc. (epi) {ucbvax,ihnp4}!dual!epicen!jbuck