chguest@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Charles J. Guest) (08/02/89)
How can you get someone banned from the net?
logajan@ns.network.com (John Logajan) (08/05/89)
chguest@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Charles J. Guest) asks: > How can you get someone banned from the net? Surgical nuclear strike. > How do you start a new newsgroup? Make an important discovery that everyone wants to talk about. > Everybody in my class has been teasing me because I don't know who > Dennis Richly is. He supposed to be a big programmer or something. I don't know who he is either. > I've been told that it's a cool thing to forge joke messages on the net. > Can anyone tell me how to forge a message? Ask the net readers to cover their eyes while reading your message. > How do I find the network address of Sirald@cup.portal.com? I don't know. > I tried to run rn on our system and I got a message about the command > not found. What's going on here? Apparently, nothing. > I've been told that there's this woman who calls herself Mark Smith who > gets real torqued about not being a man. What's this all about? > Is she for real? Who cares? > Why is there air? Why not? -- - John M. Logajan @ Network Systems; 7600 Boone Ave; Brooklyn Park, MN 55428 - - logajan@ns.network.com / ...rutgers!umn-cs!ns!logajan / john@logajan.mn.org -
mellon@zayante.pa.dec.com (Ted Lemon) (08/05/89)
You can't. Sounds like a pretty rotten thing to do anyway. _MelloN_
nogeea@gtephx.UUCP (Allen Nogee) (08/09/89)
I'm not sure who 'Dennis Richly' is but Dennis M. Ritchie is one of creators of the C language. (Along with Brian W. Kernighan)
mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack) (08/10/89)
In article <44e8f409.1205f@apollo.gtephx.UUCP> nogeea@gtephx.UUCP (Allen Nogee) writes: > >I'm not sure who 'Dennis Richly' is but Dennis M. Ritchie is one of >creators of the C language. (Along with Brian W. Kernighan) How fleeting is fame. Dennis Ritchie, along with Ken Thompson, also invented Unix. -- Dave Mack
avery@well.UUCP (Avery Ray Colter) (08/26/89)
chguest@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Charles J. Guest) writes: >How can you get someone banned from the net? The better thing to do, my friend, is to use that wonderful and fascistically efficient thing known as the KILL FILE. The kill function, at least on my reader (nn), can kill by the name of the poster as well as by subject, and can be set as a permanent fixture. So if someone is really bugging you, instead of going to all the pain and anguish of getting him banished off the net, simply banish him from your own newsfiles by putting a permanent kill by user name in your kill file. If this guy is really deserving of such drastic action, then everyone else will also put him or her in a prominent place in their kill files, and the person in question will find that his postings somehow never get answered...... This is known as banishment by attrition. -- Avery Ray Colter avery@well.sf.ca.us 71067.606@compuserve.com {apple,lamc,lll-winken,cogsci,hplabs,pacbell}!well!avery "....Fat-Bottomed Girls, You Make the Rockin` World Go ROUND!" -Queen