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Grex > Coop11 > #175: PicoSpan Documentation Fix - Scribble-family Commands | |
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remmers
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response 75 of 79:
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Jun 11 13:25 UTC 2000 |
Right, cfadm-scribbling is probably never necessary. In the case
of a clearly illegal posting (e.g. credit card numbers) or a twit
attack (e.g. somebody entering the same junk response in every
item in a conference, via an automated script) other and usually
better methods are available.
(I don't recall any credit-card-posting incident in the history
of Grex. In the one instance of item-spamming-by-script that I'm
aware of, cfadm (me at the time) edited the junk response out of all
but one item in the conference. Scribbling would have been a poor
way to handle that one.)
These are very rare situations. Jan's basic point that on Grex a
scribbling can generally be assumed to have been done by the poster
is correct, I think. If cfadm ever encounters a situation where
they see a need to scribble, I'll trust cfadm to post an explanation.
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davel
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response 76 of 79:
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Jun 12 14:29 UTC 2000 |
(I recall at least one occurrence of credit-card-# scribbling by cfadm.
At that time cfadm did post notice of it, in the next available response in
that item. The scribble command was not used, I think.)
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mwg
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response 77 of 79:
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Jun 12 16:15 UTC 2000 |
I think that Mary had it right (If I understand her correctly) when she
said that we should just make it policy that no posted text can be
permanently deleted from the system except for legal reasons. You agree
to this by using the system, and if it bothers you, don't enter anything.
This is the basis I assume on any system, regardless of what policy on
the system may say, I assume that I can't get rid of it once entered.
Hot coffee.
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pfv
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response 78 of 79:
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Jun 12 16:26 UTC 2000 |
Good Deal.. Fine.. Post it load and plain on the webpages, and in
newuser, and in the motd, and at the start of every conf.
Kiss any further bbs-use/growth goodbye.
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jmsaul
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response 79 of 79:
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Jun 12 16:47 UTC 2000 |
That won't apply to material that's already here in any event.
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