From: banerjee@hsc.usc.edu (Samit Banerjee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Asthana's School of Sermons for Hackle-raising, Offensive, Lewd and 
	 Embarrassing postings (no acronyms, please)
Followup-To: alt.flame,rec.humor,misc.test,alt.test
Date: 24 Jan 1993 05:15:46 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: hsc.usc.edu

His (ass)holiness, the prophet Asthana writes:

>Banerjee, how kind should this net be to you?

Mighty pretentious coming from somebody who has complained in chronological
order to the following system administrators (that I know of):

1. Samit Banerjee    2. Ed Crick   3. Sreehari Nimmala  4. Deb Chatterjee
5. Mustafa Ibrahim   6. An elusive MSA net   7. Deepak Bose
8. The Wimpy Finn who runs the anonymous service
9. The lady from KSU who forgot to log out and from whose account certain 
descriptions of sex acts with a cow were posted. This was after an apology 
was posted from her account the next day.

>>	2. Since no such connection has been established, it is unfair to
>>	   the Non Resident Pakistanis to apply to them criteria which have
>>	   no applicability to them.
>>	

>?

Look at your response. A pathetic question mark. Obviously the people who
coined the terms "Space, the Final Frontier" after examining the contents
of your cranial cavity were closer to the mark than they thought. 

>>	3. It is generally inappropriate for this prudish newsgroup to use
>>	   such language and if Mr.Asthana is sufficiently peeved, it may be
>>	   your systems administrator who will admonish you in the future.
>

>Semms like this is becoming your pet peeve .-)  Coming from one who
>was admonished (even briefly) it simply illustrates that you really
>have nothing to say here...   

You even repeated some of the words I had used, in a valiant attempt to lay 
claim to a degree of literary sophistication that you do not have.  As for 
being peeved, you are the one who should hold the copyright on that, 
considering the number of times you have been flamed.

>>std. disclaimer  I hope this does not violate Mr.Asthana's code of ethics.
>Give it a shot..-)

I just did and also in my last posting. Dosen't the repeated use of the word
'asshole' offend your prudish sensibilities and your smug sense of well being
to the point where my sys admin. would be your only resort?

>>Please check with me before complaining to my sys.admin.
>What happened to free speech all of a sudden?

Since when does a one on one complaint to a sys. admin. fall within the 
perview of freedom of speech? You really ought to spend less time on the
alt.sex.*** type of newsgroups and make an honest effort to understand
what the First Amendment is all about.

>Generally, I ignore these `childish postings' as one netter asked me
>to -- apparently Samit has a personal score to settle with me?  

Apparently you are humor impaired or else after the barrage of postings
lampooing your brand of McCarthyism on the net, you felt it was time
to air your rising sense of indignation. And after such juvenile behaviour, 
you have the audacity to call somebody else's posting 'childish'.

>I have known for some time that his system administrator said that
>Banerjee has lied to everyone on the net about his personal (see @)
>relationship with Brian.  I find this sort of subterfuge beneath his
>level of training etc.  

I have neither had the occassion nor seen the necessity to explain my 
personal relationship with Brian on the net. I do remember having mentioned
something in my personal correspondence with you, around the time you
complained a second time.

I do not see why I must justify your charges with a response since any
personal relationship has a certain degree of privacy attached to it. 
Suffice it to say, that what I said about my sys admin. is true and posting
a letter (which will probably be altered like Nimmala's) changes nothing.

> Hope to see a more positive side of Banerjee in the near future.  

Tell us that all the complaints that I listed above, were also an expression
of your positive side. I shudder to think what your Mr.Hyde would look
like or what he would do if left to himself on SCI.

And please cut the patronising tone from your postings. For a person who
has never contributed to any significant extent on SCI beyond those inane
one liners, you sound terribly presumptous and irreverent in your constant 
whining mode.

>To all those who attempt to complain to
>sysadmin's remember you must include an original posting so that it
>is clear that these are not fraudulent attempts.  

There you go again. Another quote from Asthana's handbook of personal pitfalls.
I doubt if you can get any more oxymoronish than this....a complaint without
a copy of the posting? What's next for you? Justifying sex with a tadpole
as final proof of the Big Bang theory. 

Along the same lines, here are some guidelines taken from the bulletin 
issued for Asthana's school for prudishness:

1. All class members must log a specified number of complaints to fulfil 
   minimum graduation requirements.  

2. If their posts force someone to post an apology, they graduate cum laude.  

3. If their complaints cause someone to lose his/her account they graduate 
   magna cum laude (or suma cum laude, whichever is the highest)  

4. If they decide to lead a 'satyagraha' march against a noncompliant systems  
   admin. (even an anonymous one) they are immediately awarded the school's 
   medal of valor. 

5. Forcing the systems admin. to fall in line would almost guarantee the title
   of class valedictorian.

6. The ability to match to match the school's founder by becoming a nuisance
   on any USENET group qualifies the person to compete for the gold medal 
   awarded to the most promising Victorian nanny of the year.

>Some people tried
>this with me; a trace is in the works -- apparently the same people
>who post anonymously tried to create from a sys admin's account a
>fraudulent set of complaints (with no basis of course) which was so
>patently obvious that now most sys admin's will check archived files
>before taking any action which of course is the correct procedure
>for correcting any misuse.  

Since I know exactly what happened, your grand plans of a conspiracy 
theory seem heroic but sadly redundant.  Better luck next time, Asthana. 

>Since, I put my name on everything I
>write, I am careful about what I say;  if enough of us can think
>before posting perhaps we can put this medium to better use?

The only "things you say" are complaints dashed off to various systems admins.
Notice the pontificial arrogance of your last sentence and the same 
patronising tone evident in the rest of your article. When will you grow
up and realise that this newsgroup does not and will not run according
to your edicts, whims or fantasies or an idiotic set of guidelines? When will
you stop being a nuisance on the net? 


Samit

std. disclaimer  I hope this does not violate Mr.Asthana's code of ethics.
		 Please check with me before complaining to my sys.admin.
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