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- From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [aus.aarnet] Re: Aarnet should not be pornographic!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.074431.17041@eff.org>
- Followup-To: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,aus.aarnet
- Originator: kadie@eff.org
- Sender: usenet@eff.org (NNTP News Poster)
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- Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 07:44:31 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- [A repost - Carl]
-
- From: sthomas@library.adelaide.edu.au (Steve Thomas)
- Newsgroups: aus.aarnet
- Subject: Re: Aarnet should not be pornographic!
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 06:11:22 GMT
- Message-ID: <1h8vuaINN88s@huon.itd.adelaide.edu.au>
-
- In article <1h883lINNpuv@huon.itd.adelaide.edu.au> phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au writes:
- >
- >If you disagree with my arguments here, before you followup and flame me,
- >come up with a good reason why rec.pets.fish should be allowed on the
- >AARNet.
- >
- One, I would never flame anyone for giving an honest opinion. Indeed,
- one of the reasons I find the alt groups so tiresome is the % of flames
- to useful dialog. IMHO, flames are a waste of everyone's time.
-
- Two, I have no wish to defend rec.pets.fish, or any other group in
- particular. What the thread is about is whether *obviously* offensive
- material should be propagated, and I think that we should be able to
- make a rational and intelligent distinction between what is acceptable
- and what is not: rec.pets.fish would probably not be offensive,
- alt.sex.pictures certainly would be.
-
- But, I concede your point, and maybe I did go a bit overboard.
- Henceforth, I will defend to the death the right of others to read and
- post absolute crap - OK?
- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
- =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
-