From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxz!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!hall Newsgroups: net.misc Title: News censorship? - (nf) Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1680 Posted: Mon Mar 14 22:42:07 1983 Received: Fri Mar 18 20:02:40 1983 #N:uiucdcs:10600080:000:507 uiucdcs!hall Mar 14 19:12:00 1983 A couple of "stupid" questions: (1) What responsibilities do the curators of USENET machines have with respect to forwarding net.news? Can a given installation censor news it doesn't like to hear? Since a given machine polls another for news, it seems to me that if the polled site chooses not to store certain objectionable news items, this prevents anyone else down the line from receiving them. (2) Are there any type (1) problems for UNIX mail? --John (...pur-ee!uiucdcs!hall)