Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!n8emr!bluemoon!sbrack From: sbrack@bluemoon.uucp (Steven S. Brack) Subject: Re: Canceling someone else's article Message-ID: Sender: bbs@bluemoon.uucp (BBS Login) Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[0][2][4]) References: <869@uswnvg.UUCP> Date: Mon, 03 Jun 91 16:00:02 EDT dfpedro@uswnvg.UUCP (Donn Pedro) writes: > In article , sbrack@bluemoon.uucp (Steven S. Brack > : > : THe USENet learning curve is fairly steep, but any "problems" > : with users' articles should be dealt with promptly. Sysadmins > : would probably have less damage control to do if they provided > : more education before the fact. > > Agreed. Everyone should read the guide to network news and have a full > understanding of the site's particular posting policy. There are sites on the net that have never formulated a formal posting policy. Are their users free to do as they please? And what of sites like ddmi/tygra/Michigan.com, where the admin is part of the problem, not the solution? I don't have any answes to these questions, but I think the problem of user education is solvable. The problem of a rogue site probably can't be dealt with by anything less than isolation. > > : Exactly. There has never been such a thing as absolute free > : speech in America, & as long as news providers, not individual > : posters are paying the transport cost, they have a fairly > : absolute right to determine what goes over their outgoing > : (or even transfer) newsfeed. > > And that is precisely the thing most fail to understand. If I own > a machine I can transport what I wish over it. You can say > what you wish but I am not obligated to echo it to the world. > Before you hit 'f' read this. > > I don't care what you say. I probobly would echo your words worldwide > but, I am not obligated to. Precisely. What each site does has always been seen as its own baliwick, but when a site does things that affect the entire net.community, like running an open telnet server, or sending bad news batches, then it ceases to be that site's exclusive problem. What then? =========================================================================== Steven S. Brack sbrack@bluemoon.uucp The Ohio State University sbrack%bluemoon@nstar.rn.com sbrack@isis.cs.du.edu ===========================================================================