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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
Newsgroups: net.news.stargate
Subject: Re: how to verify an article's submitter
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Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 16:47:36 EST
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For some reason I find it hard to believe that most site
administrators will be willing to sign (or that they might
even have the legal ability to sign) for accepting the responsibility
for the users at their site.  Why do I suspect that few people
are going to want to take the legal responsibility for such
activities on the part of their users?  I can imagine what would
happen when management got a look at that "blanket responsibility"
form.  "You signed WHAT????"  

It should also be noted that we'd probably be dealing with so many
isolated one or two person sites that the overhead would still
be quite large.

--- Enter "getting tired of the infants" mode:

But there's a much larger question.  Take a look at much
of the stuff flying around the net, particularly over the last couple 
of weeks.  Personal attacks in public groups.  "Joke" memos that
seem to be anything except jokes.  People yelling and screaming
and generally behaving like children.  This is the kind of stuff
to send via satellite?  The network rot ratio (NRR) is expanding
at an impressive pace.

--Lauren--