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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: message control at individual sites
Message-ID: <525@vortex.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 26-Jan-85 22:11:57 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 26 22:11:57 1985
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Organization: Vortex Technology, Los Angeles
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I agree that blocking all messages from a particular individual
is wrong.  Administrators have the right to control what is on their
systems, but I would certainly hope that they will use such controls
through guidelines which are fairly established and evenly applied.  Simply
saying that one person is annoying and refusing to forward any mail
from that person from then on (even if that person is indeed annoying)
is not a correct way to proceed.  Of course, individual messages
(from anyone) that did not meet the established critera for
that site might be removed (libelous, copyrighted, newsgroups that
they don't want to carry, etc.) if the administrator wished, but 
I don't approve of singling out individuals for blanket censorship under 
any conditions.

--Lauren--