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- From: stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley)
- Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.misc,alt.retromod,comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim,rec.games.video.nintendo
- Subject: Re: bincancel:3 large binaries:AR160:@@NCM
- Date: 27 Feb 1996 04:49:03 GMT
- Organization: University Computing Services - Oregon State University
- Message-ID: <4gu2fv$cog@news.orst.edu>
- References: <ARMM-Report-160@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us> <DnA68B.5Kz@caprica.com> <twellsDnCr7A.Hq7@netcom.com> <4gstkd$mvm@oracle.damerica.net>
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- In article <4gstkd$mvm@oracle.damerica.net>,
- Vernon Sandusky <vernonls@community.net> wrote:
- >Just my two cents worth. Using bots to cancel news postings is sort of an
- >internet version of the V-chip, right?.
-
- No, it is not. First, it isn't an Internet version of anything, since
- news is not the Internet. Second, the V-chip allows people to say "I
- don't want to see this" and it isn't shown to them, while cancels are "I
- don't want to see this, so I won't let anyone else see it, either."
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