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From: erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Site Admin stuff -- what if I give boneheads accounts?
Message-ID: <2380@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 4 Sep 89 17:17:16 GMT
Reply-To: erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend)
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Usenet is an elitist medium.  To participate, you must either own
a system; go to school or work at a place that has a system; or own
a terminal or computer and pay money to call into a public access system.
People who don't have the resources can't post.  Right off the bat, it's
an unfair (in terms of who can post and who can't) system.

With that out of the way... :-)

What if I cranked up a new system, called "annoy", perhaps, and offered
accounts (and full net/email access :-P) to anyone who was kicked off
the net at another site?  The purpose would be to (ahem) protect
their right to free speech on the net.  As long as they didn't break
any actual laws, they could keep their accounts.

(I know what would happen:  all of my neighbors would discconect from
me. :-)
-- 
"Watch has a clock on it" -- ficc!peter's 3.7 year old son, on seeing
                              an analog watch.
J. Eric Townsend unet!sugar!flatline!erict com6@uhnix1.uh.edu
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