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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [news.admin.policy] Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- Message-ID: <9208141535.AA00387@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Originator: daemon@eff.org
- Sender: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu
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- Organization: EFF mail-news gateway
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 05:35:43 GMT
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- Newsgroups: news.admin.policy
- From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
- Subject: Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- Message-ID: <Bsz8GH.1D0@mtholyoke.edu>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:05:05 GMT
-
- In article <AJG.92Aug13123200@sp1.ccd.harris.com> ajg@controls.ccd.harris.com (Arnold Goldberg) writes:
- >>>>>> On Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:14:31 GMT, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) said:
- >
- >Jurgen> As a news administrator for a site relatively new to the Net, I have
- >Jurgen> recently been giving _much_ thought to the issues surrounding certain
- >Jurgen> controversial newsgroups.
- >
- >[much stuff deleted]
- >
- >Jurgen> Furthermore, I am somewhat personally offended that such a relatively
- >Jurgen> large percentage of the total bandwith used by my news feeds and
- >Jurgen> store are used for such morally questionable purposes by a presumably
- >Jurgen> tiny fringe group of network users who appear to feel that it is their
- >Jurgen> natural right to waste everyone's resources with their trash.
- >
- >Before I unsubscribe this news group, let me just followup to this post.
- >
- >I grant you the fact that you might be offended by the supposed "waste"
- >of "your" bandwidth (by way of the news feeds) by questionable news groups.
- >
- >Let me suggest a simple remedy, that as the supposed news administrator
- >you must be aware of.
- >
- >Restrict the inflow of the articles!!!!
- >Very creative, huh. (An added hint for you, in case you really don't know:
- >it's in the sys file for your news setup).
- >
- >I'd rather you censor yourself then me.
-
- Where do all these idiots come from? I wasn't advocating censoring
- you or anyone. I was asking the net what people thought about
- CONSIDERING a policy of restricting the INFLOW of DEMONSTRABLY ILLEGAL
- material into MY system.
-
- I hope you DID unsubscribe this newsgroup... we don't need idiots who
- can't objectively discuss an important issue here.
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