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From: allen@sulaco.UUCP (Allen Gwinn)
Newsgroups: news.admin,alt.flame
Subject: Re: A SERIOUS DILEMMA FOR THE NET
Keywords: Something MUST be done about Portal
Message-ID: <272@sulaco.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 88 14:14:02 GMT
References: <1566@eos.UUCP>
Organization: SULACO, Dallas, TX
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In article <1566@eos.UUCP>, timelord@eos.UUCP (G. Murdock Helms) writes:

> There has recently been a tendency towards suppression on the net that is
> chilling in its implications.  I am referring specifically to the removal
> of at least one person's net access, perhaps even his account, due to
> several complaints about his postings.  

I don't think that you will find anyone involved in the mass-posting that
advocates net.censorship.  Matter of fact, based on past history, the
very people who posted the letter have stood up and complained when other's
accounts were removed.

We are simply advocating "taking responsibility for one's own actions".  The
'pseudo' abuses from Portal are reaching record proportions.  How long is it
going to be before someone pulls another "jj" because he thinks nobody can
find out who he is?

I would probably be the first to complain if one of those little pseudo-twits
lost his/her/its net access over this thing... and I think that my complaining
would be followed closely by Trish, Richard, Oleg, John, John, Bill, and
everyone else posting the letter.

-- 
Allen Gwinn  ...sulaco!allen        Disclaimer: The facts stated are my own.
"At the source of every error blamed on a computer you will find at least two
 errors...including the error of blaming it on the computer."