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From: stv@qantel.UUCP (Steve Vance@ex2499)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: WARNING
Message-ID: <340@qantel.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Jan-85 15:17:41 EST
Article-I.D.: qantel.340
Posted: Wed Jan 23 15:17:41 1985
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Organization: MDS Qantel, Hayward, CA
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in Article <336@qantel>, I write:
> In addition, I am patching the news software here so that articles
> posted from @hercules.UUCP are not forwarded thru here.  

I have received several letters in response to this posting, though not
as many as I expected--perhaps a lot of people are in Dallas and too busy 
to read net.news.  And then, there's the propagation delay to
consider--perhaps more responses are enroute.

Although the Followups to my original posting that have reached my site
seem uniformly against the concept of kicking sites off the Usenet for
any reason, private mail to me has been almost all of the opposite
inclination, namely that it IS possible to abuse the ability to post
news (per net.announce.newusers etiquette) to such an extent that
neighboring sites consider such drastic action.  I stand by this latter
position.  I also, incidentally, wonder about the disparity between those 
opinions posted and those mailed.

One of the letters I received was (apparently) from Frank himself, 
offering to never post another usenet article again if I would retract 
my suggestion that hercules be disconnected from the net.  With that in
mind, I hereby do so. 
-- 

Steve Vance
{dual,hplabs,intelca,nsc,proper}!qantel!stv
Qantel Corporation, Hayward, CA