pete@CS.UMD.EDU (Pete Cottrell) (04/12/90)
Please excuse my posting this here - I realize that it doesn't have anything to do with TCP/IP. However, the volume of messages we are receiving warrants a short response, I believe. As you have no doubt seen, an extremely rude and totally inappropriate message was posted by mojo!buzzard@mimsy.umd.edu to this list. An apology was posted a short time later. Many people have sent letters complaining about the initial posting to postmaster@mimsy.umd.edu. The author did not send this mail from mimsy.umd.edu or any other U of Md computer science department machines. Instead, it was posted from the 'mojo' machine in another department. Mimsy's only part in this is that it is the news feed for mojo. We believe that the confusing address may have been generated in the transition from USENET newsgroup to Internet mailing list. All complaints have been forwarded to the administrators of mojo and they are aware of the problem and are taking the actions they feel are appropriate. Mail bringing the posting to their attention is no longer necessary. Still, if you want to communicate your outrage to them, then please send mail to mojo.eng.umd.edu and not mimsy. We are embarrassed by the posting and hope that if doesn't reflect on the university as a whole. We hope that we can put this behind us and that the high signal-to-noise ratio will continue on this valuable list. Thank you for your understanding. Pete Cottrell Computer Science Department University of Maryland