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From: rsk@stat-l (Rich Kulawiec)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: WARNING (Big Brotherism at Qantel)
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Date: Wed, 23-Jan-85 11:41:39 EST
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	I have to disagree with Gordon (Moffet), but the site admins
at Qantel (and elsewhere) whave every right to do whatever they please
with incoming news...*except* where this affects a downstream site's
newsfeed.

	While we may not agree with the action that's been taken at Qantel,
we have no right to demand that the decision be reversed.  For example, we
have replaced the *.sources groups with pucc.sources; and we manually transfer
articles into it.  This was done because of the occasional security-breaking
program/bug that showed up in *.sources, and also because of the games (which
are off-limits at our site.)   We have every right to do this, and since we
don't feed news to anyone, only our site is affected.

	If I had the time, I'd probably patch our news software to ignore
Adrian too; I think we could put the cpu time used to shuffle his mindless
scribblings around to much better use...like figuring pi to 10000 places, say.
-- 
Rich Kulawiec @ Purdue Unix Wombat Group	rsk@purdue-asc.arpa
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