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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Usenet and legal liability
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Date: 25 Nov 89 23:02:24 GMT
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In <256C5F85.799@ateng.com> chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
Chip> Ha.  Haha.  If your site has a news feed, that means you're
Chip> getting what you asked for.  You can always turn off the feed.
Chip> Short of that, there's nothing you or anyone else can do to
Chip> control article content.

In <5122@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> bryden@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Christopher Bryden):
Chris> Say, doesn't some news software out there have something called
Chris> fascism which will allow you to completely censor a person,
Chris> site or domain?  Sounds like control if you ask me.

Then I won't ask you.

Say I went on some wild rampage, which would surely cause my job as
USENET admin for RPI to end, and decided that I would take Rick Adams
stats every two weeks and filter out incoming articles from the most
volumous posters.  The words of Richard Sexton, Chuq von Rospach, Doug
Gwyn, Henry Spencer, et al, would all be thrown together to /dev/null.

Control?  Yes.  Not, though, in the way that Chip said and which you
rebutted.  I have done nothing regarding article content.

Dave
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