home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18 / NN_1992_18.iso / spool / alt / comp / acadfre / talk / 2629 < prev    next >
Encoding:
Internet Message Format  |  1992-08-16  |  1.5 KB
  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!warwick!dcs.warwick.ac.uk!sunserver1.aston.ac.uk!uhura!evansmp
  2. From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
  4. Subject: Re: [news.admin.policy]  Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug17.084739.27744@aston.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 17 Aug 92 08:47:39 GMT
  7. References: <9208151650.AA21706@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu>
  8. Sender: usenet@aston.ac.uk (Usenet administrator)
  9. Organization: Aston University
  10. Lines: 19
  11. Nntp-Posting-Host: uhura
  12.  
  13. sbrack@jupiter.cse.UTOLEDO.edu (Steven S. Brack) writes:
  14. : 
  15. :     If I own a mail box, and mail gets delivered to it, by your
  16. :     argument, I have a right to open it and decide whether to pass it
  17. :     to its intended recipient or not.  After all, if it's not important
  18. :     to me, it's only taking up space.
  19.  
  20. The only case I know where that is true is where you have mail adressed
  21. to someone in some sort of formal capacity which you now hold.
  22. e.g. J Blogs, Membership Secretary, Undewater Photography society.
  23. If I am Membership Secretary of this organisation (or someone acting
  24. in that capacity) then I can open the mail, even if I am not J Blogs
  25. other than that I have no Business opening it for the purpose described
  26. above.
  27. -- 
  28. -------------------------------------------------------------------------
  29. Mark Evans                                   |evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk
  30. +(44) 21 565 1979 (Home)                     |evansmp@cs.aston.ac.uk
  31. +(44) 21 359 6531 x4039 (Office)             |
  32.