Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!uflorida!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!fsu1.cc.fsu.edu!otto From: otto@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu (John Otto) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: Canceling someone else's article Message-ID: <1991Jun8.020904.9620@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> Date: 8 Jun 91 02:16:26 GMT References: <12570@uwm.edu> <1991May29.172400.24035@tygra.Michigan.COM> <1991May31.161031.178@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> Sender: news@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (Usenet News File Owner) Reply-To: otto@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu Organization: Florida State University Lines: 27 News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4 Nntp-Posting-Host: fsu1.cc.fsu.edu In article <1991May31.161031.178@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>, tar@math.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) writes... >jp@tygra.Michigan.COM (John Palmer) writes: >[ I assume this wasn't yet another forgery in your name, John? It's so > hard to tell. ] >>Thats a shame. Some people just don't know how to handle flamers. If >>he got harassing e-mail, he should contact the sender's sysop and the >>feed site of the system from which the posting came. >>He should respond to his flamers and let them know that he has a RIGHT >>to post anything he wants. How do we solve this problem: Post flames >>in public newsgroups against the offender and also put him in your >>system-wide kill file. >Let me try to get this straight. Everyone has the RIGHT to post anything >they want, be it legal or illegal. However, no one has the RIGHT to >mail anything they want to a particular person. >I don't get it. Why does freedom of speech extend to posting but not email? >You keep using this word "RIGHT". I do not think it means what you think >it means. Correct. It should be a consistent matter that people should be able to say, transmit or publish whatever they please, so long as it is not an attempt at fraud.