Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ames!saturn!xanthian From: xanthian@saturn.ADS.COM (Metafont Consultant Account) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Censorship Message-ID: <10617@saturn.ADS.COM> Date: 25 Jan 90 07:49:58 GMT References: <1665@scorn.sco.COM> Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mt. View, CA (415) 960-7300 Lines: 37 In article <1665@scorn.sco.COM> davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat) writes: = =She said that he said that she said that maffray@richelieu.rutgers.edu (Frederic Maffray) said: =- =-Surprise, this morning. =-"Newsgroup alt.sex.bondage does not have a spool directory!" =-... any longer at the University of Toronto. =- =-The following explains it: =----------------------------------------------------------------------- =-Article 1010 of ont.general: =-From: brian@radio.astro.utoronto.ca (Brian Glendenning) =-Subject: Objectionable article in alt.sex.bondage =- =-Recently there was a fantasy posted in alt.sex.bondage that involves =-the rape and torture of an unwilling victim. I am rmgrouping this =-newsgroup from our system. You may want to review the matter for =-yourself. If nothing else, were the new media to find this story I =-rather suspect that it would make the fuss over rec.humor.funny of a =-while back look like small potatoes. The article in question is: =- =-Message-ID: <1447@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> = =Well, if he's the news administrator of the machine, it's his right. =Take it up with him. = I did. The response received confirmed the impression previously aroused by his actions that here we have a jerk of the first water, in the fine tradition of bookburners and radio broadcast jammers everywhere. -- Again, my opinions, not the account furnishers'. xanthian@well.sf.ca.us xanthian@ads.com (Kent Paul Dolan) Kent, the (bionic) man from xanth, now available as a build-a-xanthian kit at better toy stores near you. Warning - some parts proven fragile. -> METAFONT, TeX, graphics programming done on spec -- (415) 964-4486 <-