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From: carlo@electro.UUCP (Carlo Sgro)
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Subject: Re: Usenet and legal liability
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Date: 23 Nov 89 16:25:52 GMT
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In article <51365@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>Personally, I think they are crazy.  For once you start controlling this,
>forbidding one group and permitting another based on your opinion of the
>legality of its content, then you *are* responsible for feeding it because
>you have, and have exercised, control.

We don't get a full news feed because our fastest modem is only 2400 baud.  
Thus, we have to slash.  We don't get rec.ham-radio because of its volume.  
We also don't get all of talk for the same reason.  Most of sci doesn't 
touch this site because no one is interested in it (Richard Sexton please
note :-)).  We do get alt.sex.*, however.  We're not trying to censor 
groups.  We simply have to decide what we want and what we don't want because,
if we don't, we most likely wouldn't get any.  Not because of legality and not
because of morality but because of necessity.

Control?  Sure.  We have to.

But I'm not crazy ... :-)

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