Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site ea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ea!mwm From: mwm@ea.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Re: More Mog-Ur BBS information Message-ID: <7100026@ea.UUCP> Date: Tue, 23-Oct-84 15:25:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ea.7100026 Posted: Tue Oct 23 15:25:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Oct-84 02:58:23 EDT References: <471@wdl1.UUCP> Lines: 28 Nf-ID: #R:wdl1:-47100:ea:7100026:000:1285 Nf-From: ea!mwm Oct 23 14:25:00 1984 /***** ea:net.micro / trsvax!mikey / 9:44 am Oct 22, 1984 */ If you're going to provide a service like a bulletin board, you'd better be prepared to take responsibility for its proper usage. mikey at trsvax /* ---------- */ Let's see. A bulletin board is a message passing service, and little else. In that, it resembles the phone company and the post office. Now, since we are going to hold the post office and the phone company liable (as a co-conspirator) of any crimes that use their services to pass vital information (that's what you said, wasn't it?), then they will naturally want to be able to make sure that such messages aren't passed through them. I don't see where they will have any option but to read all our mail, and monitor all our phone calls. No thanks - I'd rather hassle the SYSOP to help locate the criminal than put up with that. If the SYSOP refused to help, then you can slap him with obstructing justice (or whatever term you use for it). But don't make him responsible for it. That puts him in about the same position as Ma Bell and the Post Offal. Of course, the SYSOP can declare certain types of message illegal, and take action against people who post them. This leads to passworded systems. Once more, the many suffer because of the few.