Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: alt.sys.sun???? Message-ID: <1989Oct6.042043.1231@rpi.edu> Date: 6 Oct 89 04:20:43 GMT References: <12@dynasys.UUCP> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 27 In <12@dynasys.UUCP> jessea@dynasys.UUCP ( Sysadmin.) writes: jessea> I will not permit alt.sys.sun on ... any systems that jessea> get a feed from me. In bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) replies: Bob> You have no power to do that unless you buy those systems and pay Bob> their administrators' salaries. In tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) writes: Tad> Wrong. He is welcome to not feed a newsgroup to any of his downstream Tad> neighbors just as he is welcome to not carry a newsgroup himself. Tad> It's his system (to manage), and he can choose what it carries/feeds, Tad> regardless of what his downstream neighbors want. Right, but that's what makes your rebuttal wrong. Bob didn't say he wasn't allowed to restrict what he feeds. He only said that he couldn't really make the final decision about what is allowed on the other machines not in his jurisdiction. For example, our site is the primary feed for Clarkson. If I !alt.sys.sun in my sys file, or otherwise prevent it from being transferred downstream (C News will still transfer articles filed to junk), then I will have pretty effectively removed it from their machine. They can, however, get an alt.sys.sun feed from anyone with whom they set up an agreement, my protestations notwithstanding. -- (setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))