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From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Re: sci.philosophy is censored as per Dejanews Re: OFFICIAL
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X-Hello-To: Archimedes Plutonium
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 08:17:46 GMT
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I'd like to nominate the following chunk of purple prose as evidence
for the July '98 Kook Of The Month award.  Because, hey, nobody else
has nominated anything during the past three hours.

In news.admin.net-abuse.usenet,
Archimedes Plutonium (Archimedes.Plutonium@dartmouth.edu) wrote:
> 
> I have noticed that none of my sci.philosophy posts registers with
> Dejanews.
> 
> I the past 5 years there has often been vandalism as regards to my name
> and the two search engines of Dejanews and Altavista. Sometimes it was
> an employee working inside Dejanews and Altavista, other times it was
> someone familar with the set-up of Dejanews and Altavista.
> 
>   I think the best remedy for this type of pranks and vandalism is to
> put the guy on a 
> 
>                   "police record" .  
> 
>   Call in the police and write the guy up. Perhaps fire him, but that
> sounds too harsh to the world's women folk. Nay, I say give him a
> permanent police record.
> 
>   And why sci.philosophy of all of the sci newsgroups that I deal with?
> I realize philosophy is the most fairy and ditzy of the sci newsgroups
> and perhaps the vandal responsible is a fairy, ditz clutz. But me
> thinks that this vandal has picked sci.philosophy to censor my posts
> because, well, few people look at sci.philosophy, and this vandal
> thinks he can get away with it
> 
[...more blather elided...]
> 
>  No sci.philosophy ever shows up on Dejanews for me.
> 
>  I say, find out the vandal and call in the police and give him a
> permanent police record for his misconduct

Dear Archimedes Plutonium,

Those fiends!  They've tricked you into trying to post to a nonexistent
newsgroup!  "sci.philosophy" isn't a newsgroup, it is a hierarchy
containing "sci.philosophy.meta" and "sci.philosophy.tech".  There
is no group named "sci.philosophy", despite your attempts (or other
peoples' attempts) to post to it, according to the lists I've checked.
(There may have once been a sci.philosophy which was split up, but
currently there isn't.)

I think for trying to trick us into looking for your posts to a nonexistent
newsgroup you should turn yourself into the police.  Before someone sues
you for Wrongful Posting.

Or perhaps you should rectify this situation by posting your own
"newgroup" message for sci.philosophy (be sure to put your name in
the "Approved" header.)  I'm sure your administrator will contact you
afterwards to thank you.

                                -- K.

                                Also, I don't think your local police
                                run the Internet.  Try the fire department.