Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mnetor.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!clewis From: clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Is anyone else offended..... Message-ID: <1106@mnetor.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 21:52:02 EDT Article-I.D.: mnetor.1106 Posted: Thu Jun 27 21:52:02 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 23:31:43 EDT References: <266@timeinc.UUCP> Reply-To: clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis) Organization: MYCROFTXXX Inc. Lines: 36 Summary: In article <266@timeinc.UUCP> greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) writes: >... >I feel that a SA should only control their machine. They shouldn't >try to control what *I* read. I am ONLY trying to control OUR machine. But, we're running out of disk space, CPU cycles, modem bandwidth, and the telephone bills are going up. Not to mention that nobody down-stream of us would particularly miss net.flame and some of the other newsgroups either. Netnews is a public service, brought to most free by SA's that put in long hours of unpaid overtime to keep the whole thing from falling apart and companies that pay the bills. We do it primarily for the technical material and partially for mail access to the world, and sometimes for some light entertainment. But, the cost of carrying material that is at best in poor taste, and frequently legally actionable is getting MUCH too high. Management is starting to put pressure on too. As another point, pulling the plug on net.flame would not be controlling what YOU read - only where you get it from. Just like if someone refused to lend you a book that they owned, you are perfectly free to get it (a book or a netnews feed) from somewhere else. SA's or the companies that support feed sites are under no obligation, legal or otherwise, to forward anything, let alone material that borders on being illegal. If we pulled the plug on all our USENET traffic tomorrow, our downstream sites would have no right to complain. SA's and feed sites owe netnews readers (in general) nothing. They're paying for the material - most netnews readers don't. Give 'em h** Chuq! -- Chris Lewis, UUCP: {allegra, linus, ihnp4}!utzoo!mnetor!clewis