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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
- Subject: [news.admin.policy] Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- Message-ID: <9208141535.AA00378@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 05:35:22 GMT
- Sender: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu
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- From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
- Subject: Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- Message-ID: <Bsz7xG.126@mtholyoke.edu>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 13:53:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.210650.16240@mcc.com> bohrer@mcc.com (Bill Bohrer) writes:
- >It's not legally harrassment because no one is forcing anyone to read
- >these groups.
- >
- >And by the way, Mount Holyoke is a small WOMEN'S college in
- >Massachusetts; Why DON'T you just drop a.b.e.p?? I doubt there are
- >that many women interested in this group, which is reason enough to
- >drop a group, rather than because the NEWS-ADMIN finds it
- >objectionable and makes up some stupid excuse that he's protectin
- >COPYRIGHT ownership for christ sake.
-
- Look, asshole, I don't make stupid excuses. I don't have any intention
- of judging when a newsgroup is "popular" enough to carry and when it's
- not. That is NOT an objective meassure... legality is. I didn't raise
- this is issue because I find it objectionable, I raised this issue because
- I'm afraid the question of legality is giving the would-be censors
- ammunition and I'd like to pre-empt that, got it? What you're advocating
- is that I make arbitrary and unilateral decissions about what I'm going
- to carry, and I have no intention of doing that.
-
- And as a matter of fact, I know that some people here ARE interested
- in this group (I don't know who, but it's being read).
-
- - Jurgen Botz
-