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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Subject: Re: [news.admin.policy] Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.080624.27229@aston.ac.uk>
- Sender: usenet@aston.ac.uk (Usenet administrator)
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- Organization: Aston University
- References: <9208131826.AA01899@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 08:06:24 GMT
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- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
- :
- : From: werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig)
- : Newsgroups: news.admin.policy
- : Subject: Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- : Date: 13 Aug 1992 12:56:26 -0500
- : Message-ID: <l8l8iaINNnki@dimebox.cs.utexas.edu>
- :
- : raising "the legal question" (and, anyway, the analogy between
- : "real life" and CyberSpace ends, as news-distribution isn't
- : done in a way analogeous to someone abusing my tree or fence,
- : but more like people sending me junkmail and ringing my doorbell
- : and phone for "solicitation"... though by hooking up to the
- : net, you are actually better off as you can filter out (most)
- : of what you don't care for by not importing certain newsgroups.
- : still there always be articles you may object to in newsgroups
- : you generally care for... oh, well..)
-
- Oddly on my system I must actually do something to read netnews.
- Viz, login and type commands.
- Junk mail lies on the door mat in the way, the door bell makes a noise
- I don't just walk in and have a terminal start displaying, or have
- the phone ring with an insistent modem on the other end.
-
- :
- : the problem of avoiding that people post "objectionable" material
-
- In the netnews context 'objectionable' may mean posted to the wrong place
- For example because people don't check to what newsgroups of sites they
- are sending it to.
-
- : from your site (or send it by email or make it available for FTP)
- : is a "completely different animal" (which you'll have to handle
- : administratively under considerations of "privacy" and "freedom
- : of speech" and "criminal liability"); when it comes to people
- : FTPing (or receiving in email) "objectionable material" to your
- : site, the question of "privacy" becomes even stronger (as the
-
- How are you going to find out what people are being sent in e-mail,
- assuming that this information is requested/welcome to it's recipient?
- What do you tell the judge if (or when) you get caught reading someone
- elses mail or non world readable files?
-
- : case to be made that you are criminally liable or that your
- : reputation suffers (also) when "objectionable material" emanates
- : from your site versus when someone receives it, is significantly
- : different)
-
- You support YOUR users if you have any decency.
-
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