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From: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Is anyone else offended.....
Message-ID: <270@timeinc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 14:06:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: timeinc.270
Posted: Thu Jun 27 14:06:28 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 01:37:50 EDT
References: <266@timeinc.UUCP> <2908@nsc.UUCP>
Reply-To: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
Organization: Time, Inc. - New York
Lines: 37
Keywords: responsibility, liability, common sense, euthanasia
Summary: 

Chuq:

What you do at your site is up to you (of course).  What you feed to other
sites is quite a question!

My feeling is that if you don't want net.flame at your site, then just
let it pass through.  OK...there is an expense associated with just
"letting it pass through".  So perhaps you can have the feeds that
feed you net.flame feed the sites that you are currently feeding.
(Did that last sentence make sense??? I think so.....)

My only concern here is that some SA doesn't decide that some one
news group, one that is valuable, isn't valuable at their site.
So they pull the plug.  Imagine what happens if ihnp4 decides that
they only think that net.wombat is valuable.   So the net degrades
down to one newsgroup --- unless somebody up or down stream from ihnp4
decides that even net.wombat isn't important or valuable.  Then we
have no net!

Perhaps some type of "policy" in the anarchy of USENET should be set
such that if a site decides that they no longer wish to participate
in a given news group, they can pull the plug on their machine
without affecting anyone else on the net??

I can understand how you feel towards the Scott Turners of the
world, but just think how their respective mothers feel.  Would
you want to take credit for the likes of him????


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Ross M. Greenberg  @ Time Inc, New York 
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I highly doubt that Time Inc. they would make me their spokesperson.