Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!DIALix!metapro!bernie From: bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: Canceling someone else's article Message-ID: <1991Jun3.130906.9859@metapro.DIALix.oz.au> Date: 3 Jun 91 13:09:06 GMT References: <1991May29.222406.26060@herald.usask.ca> <1991Jun1.174136.6258@rock.concert.net> Organization: MetaPro Systems, Perth, Western Australia Lines: 26 In <1991Jun1.174136.6258@rock.concert.net> mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan) writes: >Sure, if you own your *own* computer, you can do whatever you want >with it. Try denying access to a black person sometime! You are >_still_ subject to _some_ laws! If you *did* deny access, and if >the person decided to take it to court, you'd be in *hot water* . Certainly not if there were other reasons for the owner to reject access. e.g. He's the founding member of the secret "Computer Chaos in Government Society". Being in a minority doesn't automatically give people extra rights, does it? (It appears to because we don't wish to "offend".) >Usenet may be privately owned, and may set their policy, >but as I said -- if they say "No Asians have a RIGHT to use our >computers to take over America" I'll be it wouldn't be their policy >for long! :-) Gee, they sure wouldn't have rules like that around here :-) -- Bernd Felsche, _--_|\ #include Metapro Systems, / sold \ Fax: +61 9 472 3337 328 Albany Highway, \_.--._/ Phone: +61 9 362 9355 Victoria Park, Western Australia v Email: bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au