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From: annala@neuro.usc.edu (A J Annala)
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Subject: Re: ka9q and copyright law
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Date: 25 Dec 90 06:46:14 GMT
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>I further remind all users of this mail list that it and
>the Internet access to it are intended for support of
>research and education and not purely commercial interests
>of the kind Mr. Booth is pursuing.  I believe his use of
>USENET-to-Internet mail for this purpose to be a violation
>of the Interim NSFNET use rules and am forwarding his
>communication and this note to NSF authorities for their
>information.  Those supplying mail-forwarding for this
>class of traffic are, in my opinion, in technical if not
>substantive violation of the applicable use rules.
>
>Bill Yundt
>Executive Director, Bay Area Regional Research Network
>Board Member, Federation of American Research Networks
>Director, Networking and Communication Systems, Stanford University

Mr. Yundt:

I would personally appreciate it if you would restrain
yourself from posting threats to this bulletin board
and/or sending any allegations of improper use of the
network facilities to government officials.  Close to
20 percent of the postings propagated over the network
could easily be interpreted as falling outside of the
official guidelines for network use.  However, sending
complaints of the kind you propose to regulators might
easily result in termination of network access for a
very large portion of the network readership.  I don't
think taking that kind of risk is worth the very small
possibility someone in authority might take any action
against the original poster in this line of discussion.

Frankly, there is quite enough threat to our freedom of
speech ... and funding of network resources ... without
some self proclaimed legal eagle screwing everyone over.

On the other hand, if you want to cause serious trouble
for everyone -- why don't you just bulk print the alt.
personals, alt.sex, and alt.sex.bondage newsgroups and
mail them to some right wing religous conservatives in
the congress -- then sit back and see who's hide gets
burned in the process.

In short -- show a little more tolerance -- or start
looking for another network connection -- the federal
free ride for your opinions is likely to come to an
end real soon.