[Imc] Hide It?

[Mike Lehman]

I don't have an IMC e-mail account (Zach, can you set me up and let me
know where?) yet and don't want to use my personal e-mail to notify the
author. Since he seems to have figured out enough about IMC to spam
nearly all the IMC websites, repeatedly, I think Brian is being far too
generous in evaluating the author's naivety about how things work on
IMC. Any other opinions on this?
Mike

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?