[Imc] Hide It?

Paul Riismandel p-riism at uiuc.edu
Fri Dec 21 01:57:40 UTC 2001


I agree and hid -- it's a simple duplication, covered under policy.  I'll 
e-mail the poster and cc: the imc list.

On irc with global tech right now.  Trying to get us in sync.

--Paul

At 07:34 PM 12/20/2001 -0600, Brian Hagy wrote:
>i dunno if i'd call the article spam.  however, it does fall under the
>guise of a repost.  however, considering it wasn't on the same day, it's
>possible that the author might have thought the article was lost (maybe
>from not knowing how the site works) and thus reposted it (maybe from
>thinking the information is important for people to investigate...i admit,
>i followed the links, and was disturbed by some of what i read...so, i
>could easily imagine his insistance for others to know of this stuff).
>
>i say hide it, and send the author an email telling him he doesn't need
>to repost articles because they are already on the website/newswire.
>maybe even suggest writing further articles to follow up on some of the
>things he's already posted.  i'm frantically trying to get things finished
>so that i can get out of town for the holidays (not that i'm really
>wanting to leave, but hey), otherwise i'd do it.
>
>brian
>
>
>
>On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Mike Lehman wrote:
>
> > Same story posted twice here by IMC network spammer:
> > First Time (Dec 17, 3:50PM):
> > <http://urbana.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3471&group=webcast>
> > Second Time (Dec. 20, 2:00AM):
> > <http://urbana.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3506&group=webcast>
> >
> > Should the second one be taken down or not?
> > Mike
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