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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: A modest proposal
- Message-ID: <nyikos.715901875@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
- Keywords: decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz)
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- Organization: USC Department of Computer Science
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- Date: 7 Sep 92 21:37:55 GMT
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- In <Bu50BE.7qx.2@cs.cmu.edu> garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
-
-
- >#You are just trying to gross me out, and as I said to Keith, it cannot
- >#be done in talk.abortion without getting so explicit as to bring the
- >#wrath of network censors down on your head, and bringing pressure to
- >#make ALL talk.abortion moderated, something none of us wants.
-
- >Nyikos, there are no "network censors."
-
- I was being satirical.
-
- > There are people who
- >would like to have the authority to censor the net as a whole,
- >and certainly your site can decide what newsgroups it will
- >carry, but there is no group that can bring "pressure to make
- >ALL talk.abortion moderated."
-
- Well, isolated individuals, like the ones you've just named, could,
- although I have no idea how strong that pressure could be.
-
- >If you are offended by something someone writes on the net,
- >you can complain to that person. You can also complain to
- >their sysadmins, if you like, but in most cases those
- >sysadmins will tell you to quit reading that person's
- >articles if they offend you.
-
- Right. I was mildly offended, but my point was that these people are
- basically wasting their time.
-
- >#Back in Wollongong I saw a newsgroup with a name like alt.sex.kinky
- >#but there's nothing like it here. So you can't gross me out by
- >#posting there either.
-
- >Again, your site can carry any groups it chooses, and not carry
- >any groups it doesn't choose to. After all, they're paying
- >for it.
-
- >#But as I said to Keith, I can't stop you from e-mailing me.
-
- >In fact, you can usually complain about harassing mail and
- >get results.
-
- But I would not. I would not even repeat their obscenities to
- anyone else.
- My "ulterior motive" was to smoke out who the
- real weirdos in this newsgroup are.
-
- >Susan
-
-