Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site trsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!trsvax!mikey From: mikey@trsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Re: More Mog-Ur BBS information Message-ID: <53400044@trsvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 22-Oct-84 10:44:00 EDT Article-I.D.: trsvax.53400044 Posted: Mon Oct 22 10:44:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 25-Oct-84 03:13:52 EDT References: <471@wdl1.UUCP> Lines: 32 Nf-ID: #R:wdl1:-47100:trsvax:53400044:000:1512 Nf-From: trsvax!mikey Oct 22 09:44:00 1984 >The use of government censorship to protect a private company's < >billing information is a gross abuse of government authority. < I thought the issue was the posting of credit card numbers. I think this is a LOT different than a large companies impersonal internal billing and accounting procedures. I know I'd get REAL pissed if it was MY number given out and having an excess usage. Sure, I may not have to pay for it it the long run, but it's still my aggravation and time to straighten it out. You tried to compare this to phone freaks, who rip off the phone company by stealing service but not directly fraudulently trying to stick someone else for the bill. As to the Pentagon papers, that applies even less as an alalogy. If you're going to provide a service like a bulletin board, you'd better be prepared to take responsibility for its proper usage. You wouldn't just let anybody borrow your car, would you? Then why should you think that you can set up a BBS without any self control. I don't advocate censorship, but I don't think that a BBS is something that can be left "on its own". The potential for damage is too great. Lets all leave our loaded guns on the seats of our cars in plain view with the windows open! Lets post signs in the stores telling people to mix "Easy Off" and "Mr. Clean" and take a deep sniff to see what happens! mikey at trsvax How can anyone even think that these are the views of my employer. I don't even know what they think.