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From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Illegal Editing, Tampering of ST Report by Greg Lindahl
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Date: 6 Jun 90 06:01:30 GMT
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Christopher Roth writes:
>You raise a good point, it is horrible to let someone do our thinking
>for us.  However, I do not think I would consider the editing of ST
>Report to be 'censorship' or 'thinking for us'.  STR could not be
>distributed with the ads over the net...By removing those ads and
>distributing them greg was doing a service to the ST community, making
>more info available.  He should have gotten permission of the author
>first mind you, but other then that there is nothing wrong with what
>he did.  
 
Chris, if indeed private E-mail over UseNet is barred from containing
anything of a commercial nature, then *with permission*, removing the
ads before sending the online magazines out would be a true service...
 
But removing "paranoid ravings" or "things unrelated to the ST" is not...
that's subject to the opinion of the censor.
 
There's a big difference between the editors of a newspaper selecting which
stories to cover, and someone like a government agency coming in with a
big black marker and blanking out stories they don't want you to read.
 
The first is called editing, the second is censorship...
 
If Greg wants to create his own publication, then he can "edit" it in any
manner he wants to... but as "custodian" of a mailing list for an existing
publication, he has no right to change the content of that publication.
 
I agree that he should have gotten permission to change ST-Report before
he did so...  probably that's why it's spilled over into the public...
 
BobR