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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
- Subject: [news.sysadmin, et al.] Re: a.b.p.e. distribution (was, Re: Does USENET condone CHILD PORNOGRAPHY?)
- Message-ID: <BxGvsL.Mzt@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 21:02:45 GMT
- Followup-To: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,news.sysadmin,news.admin,news.admin.policy,alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.d
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- Lines: 32
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- [A repost - Carl]
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- From: josh@cqs.washington.edu (Josh Hayes)
- Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.admin,news.admin.policy,alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.d
- Subject: Re: a.b.p.e. distribution (was, Re: Does USENET condone CHILD PORNOGRAPHY?)
- Message-ID: <josh.721334651@mowgli>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 18:44:11 GMT
-
- I must be bored, following up my own posts, but apparently I was
- mistaken. The reason actually given by the higher-ups at the UW
- for removing a.b.p.e. was:
-
- The picture groups take up waaaayyy too much disk space; we can't
- afford them. We will, therefore, kill the entire a.b.p. hierarchy.
-
- And they did.
-
- Now, I suspect that reasons 1 and 2 as given in my previous post
- are what really drove this decision, but maybe not. Hard to believe
- that they couldn't just have put a pretty quick expire time on the
- a.b.p. groups and let it go, but I guess they didn't want to.
-
- Apologies if I misled anyone through my ignorance.
-
- Josh
-
- --
- Josh Hayes, Quantitative Sciences HR-20 U of Washington
- josh@mowgli.cqs.washington.edu 206 543-5004
- We got a kinder, gentler, machine gun hand.
- --
- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-