On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 11:33 AM, Tom Coradeschi wrote:
> Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Two of us were attacked in
> such a manner, neither of us lost our jobs, but we did have plenty of
> 'splaining to do to our respective employers. This was circa mid-1995,
> IIRC. I now flame only from my ISP account:-}
>
been on both sides. as an admin and user, I've told trolls to cut it
out or risk me trying to get them in as much trouble as I can -- and
have at times done so, with moderate success.
been threatened, and occasionally I've issued a formal apology (because
when I calmed down I admitted I was being a jerk), and occasionally my
boss has had rude names for the person doing the complaining (because
when I calmed down he agreed that other person was being a jerk). And
on one occasion, lawyers were threatened, until I pointed out my next
email was going directly to his management, since he threatened me on a
corporate email address. and suddenly we were best friends again.
this ain't new. this stuff happened a lot in the 80's on usenet.
--
Chuq Von Rospach, Architech, Apple IS&T E-mail systems
chuq@apple.com
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