Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!elroy!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: yanking net.access Message-ID: <7126@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 20 Sep 88 02:46:55 GMT References: <1566@eos.UUCP> Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 20 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. The unpleasant aspect of this is >that the person in question was not posting overtly offensive material to >the net. Yes, he produced a lot of articles, and yes, he could be >somewhat irritating, but there are other individuals in many groups who >can be accused of the same faults. The point is: someone was able to convince >the sysadmin of that machine to remove a user who had not done anything >explicitly 'wrong'. > You're overlooking the obvious. He moved, and is still on the net posting from a different site. -- One of Olegs psuedofriends richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {backbone}!gryphon!richard