[comp.sys.atari.st] Silly Postings

david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) (09/13/90)

I hate to waste bandwidth on this, because I thought it was self-evident,
but apparently I was wrong.

PLEASE do not answer silly messages like the one from a person with the
handle "PETRA." If you are concerned, send a message directly to the
person. If you are more concerned, send a message to the sysop of the
person's machine (root?), telling the sysop that this person is abusing
Usenet's resources, in your opinion. The only way to keep assholes off
the net is to freeze them out completely -- they're looking for attention,
and if we don't give it to them they'll move on somewhere else, like maybe
drinking ammonia or assasinating US presidents, the pre-Usenet methods of
being noticed.

Let's keep comp.sys.atari.st for serious discussion. Otherwise, we are
grossly betraying the trust of the institutions who pay thousands of $$
every year to distribute our ravings.

David Megginson
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