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From: craig@com2serv.C2S.MN.ORG (Craig S. Wilson)
Newsgroups: news.admin,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Usenet and legal liability
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Date: 22 Nov 89 12:56:18 GMT
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In article W C Newell Jr writes:

The sites have a major role in
reviewing and filtering newsgroup content, and assume status of co-publisher by
default.

I guess you would have to explain to me why you feel that sites should
do this.  Why not just assume the responsibility of passing the news
on and not worry about the content?  Read the groups you are
interested in and let the rest go through unfiltered.  

It is interesting to note that this policy might also have prevented
the namespace problems, in that all groups would have equal
distribution.

Maybe, if you establish this as your "official" policy on the handling of 
news, you could distance yourself, institutionally, from any
controversy.  Of course, I am not a lawyer, so I guess I haven't been
certified by the state as being able to dwell on issues like this. ;^)

/craig

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