On Oct 14, 5:30 am, "Rhonda Lea Kirk" <rhonda...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Leythos wrote:
> > In article <fercbj$bq...@blackhelicopter.databasix.com>,pcbut ts1
> > @leythosthestalker.com says...
> >> You can't find it becausePcbutts1is not my real name. I use my
> >> real name in the MS groups complete with my MVP sig.
>
> > And yet all of your posts asPCBUTTS1were banned because of your
> > unethical actions.
>
> IIRC, he was banned because he refused to comply with the Microsoft TOS,
> not because of "unethical actions." The only server from which his posts
> are filtered are the Microsoft server. If he posts using a different
> NNTP provider (as I do), those posts will be available on all usenet
> servers but the Microsoft server.

You are correct. I never cared about his ethics. I had complaints
about the content of his posts, I investigated the situation, I
explained them to him, he refused to follow the rules, and I blocked
him *solely* from Microsoft's servers. I wanted to make sure that
when we canceled a message, we did not ship that cancel message off to
USENET as a whole. We (well, Microsoft.. I'm putting my MS hat back
on) don't own USENET. We own our servers, and we had full right to
remove what we wanted from our own servers. I'm not doing it anymore,
my Newsgroup Admin role ended back in 2005 and I am not currently
employed by Microsoft.

> Microsoft has a dubious history when it comes to banning and censorship,
> so if I were you, I would not use butts' banning from its server as a
> data point in support of the case against him.

You are more than welcome to question me with regards to anything
regarding the newsgroup servers between, roughly, 2003 and 2005. That
was my job and I took pride in ensuring that *only* ToS violators and
true USENET spammers were banned.

> I reported the Sharon Franks ID the first time I saw it (June 2006, when
> he posted one of his infamous links), but nothing was done then and
> nothing has been done since.

That was after my time, so I can't speak about that.

You can feel free to believe I'm not really the John Eddy who was in
charge of the servers.
You can feel free to believe what PCButts1 has said about his
interactions with me, none of which have been true.

.....
And, since it is now stuck in my head, let me get it stuck in yours
too....
You can dance if you want to.
You can leave your friends behind....

-jd