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- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!netcomsv!netcom.com!lunisea
- From: lunisea@netcom.com (Stephanie Alford)
- Subject: Censorship (was Testing Tin)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.071629.19812@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:16:29 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- In article <1993Jan26.023052.14540@ra.msstate.edu> jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu
- (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:
- >>
- >>(Followups on spanking should be redirected to alt.sex.bondage.)
- >> ^^^^^^^^^^
- > But only if your University 'thinks' that people over 21 years old can
- >handle reality... Yes, I know I could get any censored news group I
- >wanted to via Nyx or uunet.net, but I shouldn't have to ! Argh.. Last
- >week all of the alt hierarchy was cut off... I complained in a quiet and
- >reserved manner... Jim. { No, I'm not into bondage, but censorship is a
- >no-no... }.
- ><mumble mumble>
- SEA joins in: "When I was a younger lass and employed, oh about last
- summer sometime, the systems administrator complained that there wasn't
- enough disk space and he was thinking of ways to increase disk space for
- the programmers that really needed it to do *work* of all things! One
- of the solutions was to lose the alt.* hierarchy starting with alt.sex
- and those newsgroups he considered (I forget the term he used) racy, etc.
- While I agree in general that newgroups provided to one at work should
- have to do with work, I disagree with letting someone decide what "fun"
- newsgroups should be let through. If he had said that all newsgroups
- except the comp.* hierarchy were going to be lost, I might not have
- squawked as much. DJ is right, censorship is a no-no."
- Collecting a glass of wine from Mike, SEA turns to DJ and says, "Isn't
- it time we had another dance?" Strains of big band swell in a corner
- somewhere and she smiles sweetly.
-
- SEA
- (still looking for work in all the wrong places)
-
-