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From: rich@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Rich Andrews)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Site Admin stuff -- what if I give boneheads accounts?
Message-ID: <1489@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>
Date: 5 Sep 89 03:38:48 GMT
References: <2380@flatline.UUCP>
Reply-To: rich@jolnet.UUCP (Rich Andrews)
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Organization: Jolnet, Public Access Unix, Orland Park (Joliet), Ill.
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In article <2380@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
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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.

I disagree.  Access to the usenet or any bbs is
no more unfair other than excluding those who don't have modems.

>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 have yet to "kick off" anyone here because of poor usenet protocol
or for being a "nuisance to the net".




rich
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