Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!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 Keywords: NET DRIVING INFINITUM Message-ID: <1991Jun8.023605.10314@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> Date: 8 Jun 91 02:41:50 GMT References: <1991Jun1.172809.6198@rock.concert.net> Sender: news@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (Usenet News File Owner) Reply-To: otto@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu Organization: Florida State University Lines: 16 News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4 Nntp-Posting-Host: fsu1.cc.fsu.edu In article <1991Jun1.172809.6198@rock.concert.net>, mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan) writes... >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? The first I heard this allegation regarding driving was about 12 years ago. Can you imagine George Washington or Ben Franklin going down to the government office to get a permit to drive a wagon on the street. Now, before you say "But cars and trucks are so much more dangerous." explain the hundreds of thousands of horse-related injuries that took place in the 1890s.