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From: woof@psivax.UUCP (Hal Schloss)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Is anyone else offended.....
Message-ID: <523@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 14:56:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: psivax.523
Posted: Fri Jun 28 14:56:02 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 05:44:22 EDT
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Reply-To: woof@psivax.UUCP (Hal Schloss)
Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA
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Keywords: responsibility, liability, common sense, euthanasia

I must say that I agree with many of the sentiments I have seen regarding
removing net.flame. As the local SA for the news on this machine, I must
justify to management the existence of the news, and the phone bills
that we pay in it's support. I find it impossible to think of a reason
that management would buy to support a newsgroup like net.flame. As it is
we let it go by so long as it is not a problem. 

Much of why we get the news is limited to a very few newsgroups, as a COURTESY
to others we pass on all the news right now. If at any time though, we find 
that some portion of the news is too expensive to send, or too offensive to
stomach I see no reason why we should pay for it.

I think that of lot of the net.flame type of problems or request for missing
modems going to the entire world, or summer employees at one company looking
for others, is due to SA's not enforcing a new user to review some of the
"Netiquette" type of documents that exist. So long as some users view news
as a "right" to blindy blast messages at others without some forethought,
we can expect many other people to become offended.

		With some feeling of trepidation,
-- 
		Hal Schloss
		(from the Software Lounge at) Pacesetter Systems Inc.
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