On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 02:40:35PM +1200, John Carter wrote: > Ah, but regional interest lists have one advantage. The fact that your > audience can get in their cars and _visit_ you enmass, up front, face to > face and in person has a dampening effect on trolls and spammers.
i heared older sysadmins tell stories of solving problems by sending a "tactical minivan" to the offender. the group does not need to be regional for this to work, you just need to find a few volunteers that can make it to the target within a few hours drive. ding-dong ... this is a delegation from the alt.sysadmin.recovery[0] newsgroup. we'd like to have a word... [0] i don't remember which newsgroups were used to plan these events. greetings, martin. -- looking for a job doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training, sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world. -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.schon.org Martin B�hr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
