From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PLING_QUERY,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,53f1f03353d5ae00 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: afn03257@freenet2.afn.org (Daniel P Hudson) Subject: Re: STUDENTS GO AWAY!!!!!!!?????? Date: 1997/04/30 Message-ID: <5k6du8$s9j@huron.eel.ufl.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 238366936 References: <335bdd1b.5485893@news> <5js5i6$ac8@huron.eel.ufl.edu> <5jufaq$r5l@huron.eel.ufl.edu> NNTP-Posting-User: afn03257 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-04-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote: >Daniel said ><is, has been, or ever will be a student, Mr. Dewar. The basic premise >is students should be banned form usenet because they are stupid >and serve no purpose in the original posters eyes. I call that slightly >unfriendly, myself.>> >Despite Daniel's energetic attempts to persuade people to favor such a ban, You must be sick. I have not tried to persuade ANYONE to favor ANYTHING. I have stated I am shocked at some of your over generalizations of students. >at least for some students, the fact of the matter is that no one has >suggested banning anyone -- nore is there any mechanism to do so, nor You don't think "STUDENTS GO AWAY!!!" suggests anything of the sort, correct? Considering a thread title is supposed to "reflect" the content, I must disagree. >has anyone favored putting such a mechanism in place. So you are tilting >at windmills here I am afraid! First, I know that it isn't possible to physically ban students from posting. Second, it is possible to make the group so unattractive and vicious they will not visit it. The EMAIL recieve by this reader was one such attempt Mr. Dewar.