Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!agate!bionet!turbo.bio.net!lear From: lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: ANS Acceptable Use Policy Message-ID: Date: 3 Apr 91 00:53:26 GMT References: <1991Mar29.151152.22304@ima.isc.com> Organization: GenBank Computing Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 14 rowan@ima.isc.com (Rowan Hawthorne) writes: >I would say that this should be clearly defined the way that the U.S. >Postal service defines it: obscenity is defined by the recipient. ANS >should not engage in censorship of traffic, unless requested to by the >recipient of mail deemed obscene. In general, the USPS engages in >censorship (refusal to deliver messages) only at the request of >recipients or law enforcement agencies. Only the government can enact censorship. ANS is not the government. You can get alternate services. -- Eliot Lear [lear@turbo.bio.net]