X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,9c46bf1057de06a5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Patrick Craig Subject: Complaint about (unintentional?) abuse of usenet by your dept. (fwd) Date: 1997/10/07 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 278497634 X-Sender: s002psc@paladin.wright.edu Organization: Wright State University Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art >From: "fwiese" >To: >Subject: Complaint about (unintentional?) abuse of usenet by your dept. >Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 08:33:43 +0100 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1161 > >Dear sirs/ladies, > >Past week the newsgroup alt.ascii-art received several binary posts under >the subject header CP2. The posters introduced themselves as being M.I.S. >students at Wright State University. The messages seemed to be part of a >course called CS205-02. >According to your webpages the instructor of this particular class is >someone called *graff*. I refer to: > >http://www.cs.wright.edu/schedules/fall97/CS.html > >Would you be so kind to inform the responsible person that in alt.ascii-art >(in fact: in the majority of newsgroups) posting binaries is considered to >be *abuse*? > >Kind regards, >Mic Barendsz "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." My name is Patrick Craig, and I am a teaching assistant at Wright State University in the CS205 class. My views are _not_ those of Wright State University. I take it that absolutely none of you have ever been first time usenet posters? Or have ever made a mistake in your lives? Our students are human beings, and we're doing the best we can to get them to post the correct attachment formats to the correct newsgroups. Occasionally they will make a mistake, however, and that's human nature. The so-called "abuse" _is_ unintentional, and it upsets me to think that you people would try to take it any other way. If you're looking to vent anger, why don't you take it to professional counseling? A more constructive response to this problem would have been to offer to give us a hand with showing our students netiquette standards. I want to thank you all for making the world a more bitter place. Patrick Craig My views do not represent those of Wright State University.