Just so that ya'll are aware that we ARE getting some help from "Bob" at SI. I've been complaining about the harassing posts from the temps and, well.....
Rich
To: Dixie7777 (who wrote...)
From: SI Admin
Tuesday, Jul 7 1998 3:04PM ET
Thanks for pointing that one out to me! I'd deleted one of his messages earlier and
banned the account, but didn't catch the other two messages. I think I had to deal with
about 10 such accounts so far today. Because I anticipated such a problem with these
particular threads (now, why would I anticipate that? <g>), I was already reading
many of the trial-member posts. And participants such as yourself and others have
pointed out ones I might've otherwise missed.
In a way, I'm very, very glad that Brad put in a new feature to allow certain threads to
become off-limit to trial members, but in another way, I was getting a kind of twisted
enjoyment out of knowing that with a couple of mouse-clicks, I was negating far more
work on the harrassers' part.
It's almost unfair. <g> They have to create a bogus email address somewhere, create
their bogus SI account by going through all the screens, typing in the email address,
later typing in the 4-digit code, then write their messages. I, on the other hand, have
only to click the "Delete" button, click their name, then click the "Ban" button.
Reminds me of a game I play with my 9-year old daughter where she says something
over and over again, such as "Can we go for a motorcycle ride now?" and my
response (over and over again) is "nope". Even she eventually figures out she's putting
more effort into a futile cause than I am. :)
In short, to use a local colloquialism, we're "all over it", so hopefully people will wait a
bit to see if we've run across one of the problems before inundating Jill and myself with
email.
Regards,
SI Admin (Bob) |
