Xref: utzoo news.admin:15229 news.software.b:8258 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!mips!daver!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Responsibility for non-RFC articles Message-ID: <2857E736.3519@tct.com> Date: 13 Jun 91 21:44:22 GMT References: <284FDD50.1722@tct.com> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 29 According to mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*): >Unfortunately, those of us who don't happen to run UNIX tend not to have >much choice about the news software we run. The packages for MS-DOS Usenet access are several. >> Each user chooses which system and what software to use for posting to >> Usenet. > >No. Each system administrator chooses the system and software. Rather, each system's administrator chooses the software, and each user chooses administrator/system/software as a package. >The user may have had nothing whatsoever to do with that (possibly bad) >choice ... The user chooses whether to use the system or not. That choice is made each time he is about to post an article. He *is* responsible. >So if you punish users, you will still end up punishing the innocent. Who said anything about punishment? I'm talking about the facts of life, not trying to set policy. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT , "You can call Usenet a democracy if you want to. You can call it a totalitarian dictatorship run by space aliens and the ghost of Elvis. It doesn't matter either way." -- Dave Mack