Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!rutgers!mcnc!rock.concert.net!mcmahan From: mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: Canceling someone else's article Keywords: NET DRIVING INFINITUM Message-ID: <1991Jun1.172809.6198@rock.concert.net> Date: 1 Jun 91 17:28:09 GMT References: Sender: news@rock.concert.net Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville Lines: 31 Wait a minute ... [sorry folks -- no LONG quotes of other's messages quoting other's messages ad infinitum -- maybe you'll all emulate me? :-) ] Driving is a privilege? Posting articles is a privilege? That's a very interesting point: who decided it was a privilege? I mean, _someone_ had to start all this "news" initially, right? Now it's *everywhere* on a *lot* of systems. Ditto for vehicles: initially they were very rare and a novelty. E-mail and "news" is becoming *very* common. So, who decides to whom the privilege is given? Do individual systems administrators get to decide what they think the users of their system need to read? Is it a higher level decision? Should the *government* scan _all_ the incoming "news" to see if the views violate federal law before the "news" is forwarded to federally funded educational facilities? All the news that's fit to print? See the problem? This is a brand new area that hasn't been subjected to any kind of legal scrutiny ... --------------------------------------------------------------------- mcmahan@cs.unca.edu for those of you who think in base 2 Scott McMahan to the rest. As always: #include "stddisclaimer.h" --------------------------------------------------------------------- ^-- Look! I only signed it *once* ! :-)