Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cmu-cs-cad.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cmu-cs-cad!mjc 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 Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-c.345 Posted: Sun Jun 30 15:42:33 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 02:40:27 EDT Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 24 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 -- UUCP: ...ucbvax!dual!lll-crg!dragon ARPA: monica.cellio@cmu-cs-cad or dragon@lll-crg