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- Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!eff-gate!usenet
- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [news.admin.policy] Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- Message-ID: <9208151537.AA04562@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Originator: daemon@eff.org
- Sender: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu
- Nntp-Posting-Host: eff.org
- Organization: EFF mail-news gateway
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 05:37:03 GMT
- Approved: usenet@eff.org
- Lines: 35
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- Newsgroups: news.admin.policy
- From: harthc@ntmtv.UUCP (Howard Hart)
- Subject: Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.040248.7681@ntmtv>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 04:02:48 GMT
-
- In article <viking.713740471@vincent1.iastate.edu>, viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
- |> In <1992Aug13.191334.19680@ntmtv> harthc@ntmtv.UUCP (Howard Hart) writes:
- |>
- |> >Here's a simple if slightly fascist fix. Disable access to questionable
- |> >newsgroups and permit access by user machine only. Insist on low-key,
- |> >word of mouth subscription only (i.e. - they have to come to you as
-
- |> Unfortunately, it doesn't work worth a damn. Here at ISU,
- |> we have a large network of Unix machines, VAXen, and one old
-
- Works fine here, but then, everyone has a personal workstation. Agreed,
- it's a little hard to foot the bill for that a your local
- University.
-
- |> There are ways around everything, and your policy is so
- |> easy to circumvent it is merely a laughable attempt that only
- |> inconveniences readers.
-
- You missed the point entirely. I'm not trying to restrict access,
- I'm just hiding it from those who might object to it. The purpose
- is obscurity, not security.
-
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