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From: mjc@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA (Monica Cellio)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Is anyone else offended.....
Message-ID: <345@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 30-Jun-85 15:42:33 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 30 15:42:33 1985
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From: ihnp4!timeinc!greenber@ut-sally (Ross M. Greenberg)
>>if the SA in question isn't controling your machine then s/he can't control
>>what you read.
>
>Er, Chris.....the SA in question is talking about not letting net.flame
>pass through his site.  That implies to me that he will end up
>making my net.flame feed suffer.  So he is controlling what I read.

But he's not stopping you from going out and finding another site that does
pass net.flame.  An SA has the right to control the resources at his site,
including money and disk space, and if net.flame is too big or expensive to
deal with he should cut it off.

To anticipate your next argument, if major sites like seismo decide to not
pass net.flame, one of two things will happen.  Other sites will become the
backbones, or net.flame will drop out of existence.  If you want net.flame
badly enough, go out and get it, but you don't have the right to insist that
your feed provide it.

							-Dragon

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