Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bnl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!sbcs!bnl!jpm From: jpm@bnl.UUCP (John McNamee) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.jobs,net.news Subject: Re: Headhunters in net.jobs Message-ID: <873@bnl.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 14:36:46 EST Article-I.D.: bnl.873 Posted: Sun Feb 10 14:36:46 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 01:44:43 EST References: <290@bbnccv.UUCP> <1108@amdahl.UUCP> <2331@nsc.UUCP> Distribution: net Lines: 28 Xref: watmath net.followup:4474 net.jobs:1026 net.news:3150 > From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP > > I think I ought to point out that the Solution is (I believe) a timesharing > system, and AA personnel a client. This implies, of course, that AA > Personnel is paying cold cash for their access to the network and > the postings they do. This also gives them a BETTER claim to do so than > many, because they ARE directly supporting the costs of the network, > rather than pretending that it is free. Since when was sol1 a backbone site? I dont think they can honestly claim to be supporting the cost of the network. When this headhunting agency pays to post to Usenet, they are supporting the owners of "The Solution," not Usenet itself. They have no more claim to use Usenet for commercial purposes than anybody else. I agree with the rest of chuqui's article. There is nothing we can do to stop this headhunter, The Solution, or anybody else from abusing the net. The only way we are ever going to be able to control net abusers is to create /usr/lib/news/blacklist, containing names of sites and/or users whose articles should be sent to /dev/null rather than forwarded. This, of course, is a very bad idea open to a great deal of abuse. So we are stuck with headhunters posting 1E6 articles to net.jobs and there is nothing we can do about it. -- John McNamee ..!decvax!philabs!sbcs!bnl!jpm jpm@Bnl.Arpa