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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Censorship: A Case History (part 1, 11 Jan 84 to 23 Jan 84)
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Date: Sun, 20-May-84 00:00:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 20 00:00:00 1984
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Again and again nobody realizes just how much money this net costs,
and just how much money people who post without thinking about it run
us.

The use of the net on somebody else's machine, using somebody else's
phone bills is an exceptional privilege.  I can't see how anybody
can think otherwise.  Ask the people who are paying.  If I was
paying Maroney's phone bill and somebody pointed it out to me you can
bet I would think stronly of shutting him off.  Several times I have
seen him at the top of the big posters list, if my memory is correct.

People help pay for the net because it increases the satisfaction of
the user community, or because they are lied to by their employees and
don't know they are paying for it.  In either case, when somebody
gets way out of line in the amount they post, you are no longer getting
the utility you want.  If you shut off the entire net, or restrict it
to unix-wizards, you punish the other good people for what one A**hole
is doing.

Tim can't call it censorship.  If he wants to post, he can.  Like me,
he can purchase his own Unix system, modem and phone line.  Then he
can post all he likes if some site will accept his news, and most will.
You might argue that sites have a 'right' to fair acces to this net,
but they are the only ones.
-- 
	Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ontario (519) 886-7304