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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.115245.26336@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 91 11:52:45 GMT
References: <1991Jun7.160730.11982@mp.cs.niu.edu> <F31B429w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <F31B429w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) writes:
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>So FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A USER OF THE SYSTEM, why is it OK to silently
>throw away news that person has written, but not OK to silently throw away
>mail that person has written?

 The email was written and addressed to a specific recipient.  The news
article was put on the net on a "take it or leave it" basis.


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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940