Newsgroups: news.admin
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: disgusting slime (was Re: A SERIOUS DILEMMA FOR THE NET)
Message-ID: <1988Sep26.171231.24901@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <265@sulaco.UUCP> <5572@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <267@sulaco.UUCP> <3144@utastro.UUCP> <2595@csccat.UUCP> <7203@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 88 17:12:31 GMT

In article <7203@gryphon.CTS.COM> oleg@gryphon.CTS.COM (Oleg Kiselev) writes:
>Such "standards" will violate the basic freedom of speech previously enjoyed
>by the NET.  In the last 4.5 years I have been on the NET news groups have
>been able to establish their own conduct and language guidelines and have
>managed to deal with the unavoidable periodic disruptions...

The net has changed, and continues to change.  Speaking as someone who's
been on the net for 7.5 years, it is a mistake to think that mechanisms
which cope adequately at one time will suffice for all time.  The net's
problems are steadily getting worse.

"`Freedom of speech' means that most postings are worth what their author
paid to post them."
-- 
NASA is into artificial        |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
stupidity.  - Jerry Pournelle  | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu