cambler@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Fubar) (09/18/90)
Our Moderator recently said... >>[Moderator's Note: I still don't think it is funny. I regard it as a >>major violation of trust.... PAT] >[Moderator's Note: Did you think it was funny at the time? Do you >still think it is funny? PAT] Come on, Pat, lighten up. It's going to happen. It happens in ALL areas. Some of the computer labs I have worked in DELIGHTED in sending messages to novice users' screens. Similarly to the phone incidents, there were times when we'd throw two terminals into ntalk with each other and watch the totally unaware users type at each other. Perhaps what is irking your squid is a bit more serious than this, but like I said, IT HAPPENS. It *IS* funny. Roll with it. Or another point ... is it funny when a subscriber pulls pranks on the phone company? How about the subscriber that records SIT tones and the "this number..." recording on a digital answering machine and drives an operator nutty? What about the hours of work tracing down the trouble in a perfectly working line? I guess my point is, do you expect this industry to be free from this sort of behaviour? I don't. Christopher(); --- cambler@polyslo.calpoly.edu --- chris@fubarsys.slo.ca.us