Re: [ga] [Admin] Removal of monitoring for Joe Baptista

[Patrick Greenwell <patrick@stealthgeeks.net>]

On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Dave Crocker wrote:

> At 10:19 AM 2/13/2000 -0800, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
> >I'm confused Harald. You are allowed to act as both accusor and judge?
> 
> Please review my discussion note on this topic. 

I disagree with your position. 

?  The most that is 
> feasible is after-the-fact accountability.
 
> Consider the denial-of-service attack that has been going on with a number 
> of major ISPs this past week, or so.  Would you like to require that they 
> go through a cumbersome legal process before being allowed to stop the 
> actions that are preventing them from being able to do business?

The only time where such a process need be suspended is in a
denial-of-service situation. Are you attempting to make a credible
representation that a "normal" volume of posts from an individual creates
such a situation?  

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