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Subject: Re: Re: More Mog-Ur BBS information
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Date: Tue, 23-Oct-84 15:25:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 23 15:25:00 1984
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/***** 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
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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.