From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Tue Oct 10 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!CRCVMS.UNL.EDU!achristensen From: achristensen@CRCVMS.UNL.EDU (Alan C. Christensen, Ph.D.) Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila Subject: Annoying messages Date: 11 Oct 1995 09:12:06 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 50 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <01HWB8JU2ZBM8WYDQI@crcvms.unl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net I hate to use up band width with this message, but to anyone who was annoyed with the messages from foshay@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu (foshay elena m), the way to respond is not by posting here to the drosophila group. Instead you need to e-mail a responsible individual at the person's host institution pointing out what they have done. Flames to the individual may make you feel better, but will not make the institution aware of the abuse of their equipment. To do this, I finger-ed @ux5.cso.uiuc.edu, and found that the system operators login was opr, so I sent a message to opr@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu. Finger-ing the sender suggested that it is a UIUC student. Someone who is actually at the Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where this originated may have better information about who to report this to, and many of us would probably appreciate a post of such information. For example, if there is a Dean of Students at UIUC who has an e-mail address, that would be really useful. The Director of the computing facility must have an e-mail address also. I was most concerned (see below) with the message on selling term papers, which is unethical, and could be grounds for disciplinary action by the University of Illinois. Here is the text of the message I sent: Today I received the attached message that was posted to the bionet.drosophila Usenet newsgroup. I suspect it was cross posted to a large number of other newsgroups, but I don't know. It was apparently done by one of your students, Elena M. Foshay. There were two other posts along with this one, and all are annoying and a waste of bandwidth, but this one is unethical. I do not know what sort of code of student conduct the University of Illinois has, but here at the University of Nebraska, this would fall under several categories: cheating, fabrication and falsification, plagiarism, abuse of academic materials, complicity in academic dishonesty, and misrepresentation to avoid academic work. It could result in expulsion from the University. It might also be against student rules to use University computers to disseminate such material. This student should be referred to the appropriate University Judicial Officer, for appropriate action. Please also inform the student about the proper use of the Internet. Sincerely, Alan C. Christensen Associate Professor School of Biological Sciences University of Nebraska .