Talk: Net Cops :P

In article <3idgo4$nj...@gagme.wwa.com>, pa-...@pat.uwe.ac.uk (PA Ross) writes:
|> 
|> People if you are offended by strong language then don't read this post.
|> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
|> 
|> THE most annoying organisms are self proclaimed net cops. These small minded 
|> little nazis suffer from the same psychological disorder as traffic wardens. In
|> life they have no power and so they get on the net, get into a little community
|> and it goes to their heads. God I loath their smug little messages, I was on 
|> irc the other day, called chaos, and this guy says you must use your real name.
|> I didn't realise what kind of a pathetic, power hungry piece of shit that I was
|> dealing with. 'Are you taking the mick because my parents decided to call me
|> chaos :)?' I asked, please note the smiley !. Bam he goes mad, bans my _whole_ 
|> site from his irc server.

	Agreed. This is especially bad on IRC where newbies with ops think
they're gods. I think I've a pretty good idea whom you're referring to. I've met
some jerks on #chaos also.

|> These walking adverts for abortions will one day breed out of society since 
|> they tend to spend most of their time staring at a computer screen and their
|> only sexual outlet is tossing off to gifs and jpgs from alt.binaries.pictures.
|> erotica. The net is one of the few places on Earth which is devoid of rules,
|> and we are all free. These miserbale anal retentives want to control it, don't
|> let them do. Post your sig as big as you want it. Hell make an eight page sig
|> and post it to any net cop.

	This is where you're wrong. There may be no central governing body on
internet but different organizations have different policies on internet usage.
Most are adapted from the Code Of Ethics set by the NSF and are fairly reasonable.
As far as long sigs are concerned, well, I love to see what anybody's creative
juices have concocted as much as the net guy but in certain instances, it is
inappropriate to have long sigs. As noted in my earlier post, unnecessarily
lengthy articles which take up lots of disk space and not very many
institutions have the resources to support such a load. Our news server has
been overloaded several times and there's also been many discussions about
removing certain groups from the server due to excessive lengths of posts.
Bear in mind that we're talking about a server that carries hundreds of
newsgroups. The point it, you CAN post long sigs on the net, but, do you
really HAVE to? Plus, have you any idea how much it costs to put up articles on
the net? 

|> I think I have made myself clear,
|> 
|> Please do not post any flames because I have an automated flame kill file that
|> will ingore any messages from a certain indivudual. 

	This is obviously not a flame. I merely wish to inform you and other
users the possible consequences of unecessarily lengthy articles in newsgroups.
So far, we have had our article retention time reduced twice (for several
newsgroups) due to lack of disk space and considerations for removal. The
internet is a place where the rights on freedom of expression is not infringed.
Let us exercise this right to the full extent but also, let's not abuse that
right.


Joe Yong.

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