Unwanted posts

There seem to be a lot of porn and virus? posts which are allowed to remain on the site, is there no monitoring, I have to say I don’t understand how these sites function, but surely someone must have some responsibility? The fake microsoft message (presumably a virus has been hanging around since 8 Dec)
Harry

There seem to be a lot of porn and virus? posts which are allowed to remain on the site, is there no monitoring, I have to say I don’t understand how these sites function,

but surely someone must have some
responsibility? The fake microsoft message (presumably a virus has been hanging around since 8 Dec)
Harry

There seem to be a lot of porn and virus? posts which are allowed to remain on the site, is there no monitoring, I have to say I don’t understand how these sites function,

I’d say. Usenet isn’t a "site". I think you should do a web search and some reading on usenet before proceeding.

Eric Gill wrote:

There seem to be a lot of porn and virus? posts which are allowed to remain on the site, is there no monitoring, I have to say I don’t understand how these sites function,

I’d say. Usenet isn’t a "site". I think you should do a web search and some reading on usenet before proceeding.

Eric, I thought this sort of stuff was *your* responsibility.

Especially to educate the newbies before they are allowed to post. I’m disappointed in you.

Wizard of Draws wrote in
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Eric Gill wrote:

There seem to be a lot of porn and virus? posts which are allowed to remain on the site, is there no monitoring, I have to say I don’t understand how these sites function,

I’d say. Usenet isn’t a "site". I think you should do a web search and some reading on usenet before proceeding.

Eric, I thought this sort of stuff was *your* responsibility.

Right after there’s an RFD and vote on moderation, sure.
I wouldn’t advise it. :-}

Especially to educate the newbies before they are allowed to post. I’m disappointed in you.

It would be worse if that were true. I’m a tyrant-asshole.

"Eric Gill" wrote in message

Wizard of Draws wrote in
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Eric Gill wrote:

There seem to be a lot of porn and virus? posts which are allowed to remain on the site, is there no monitoring, I have to say I don’t understand how these sites function,

I’d say. Usenet isn’t a "site". I think you should do a web search and some reading on usenet before proceeding.

Eric, I thought this sort of stuff was *your* responsibility.

Right after there’s an RFD and vote on moderation, sure.
I wouldn’t advise it. :-}

Especially to educate the newbies before they are allowed to post. I’m disappointed in you.

It would be worse if that were true. I’m a tyrant-asshole.

Eric
I wouldn’t go so far as to say tyrant!

Give me a position of power to abuse and I’m sure you’ll change your mind.

In article , Eric Gill
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Give me a position of power to abuse and I’m sure you’ll change your mind.

I can give you root on a Unix machine! 🙂