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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: net posting deletions
Message-ID: <509@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Mar-85 16:47:22 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.509
Posted: Wed Mar 13 16:47:22 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 13-Mar-85 17:03:15 EST
References: <348@nmtvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Distribution: net
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: it's legal because it isn't illegal

In article <348@nmtvax.UUCP> guads@nmtvax.UUCP writes:
||   Why is it legal (or is it?) for the administrators to delete
||postings (such as from net.source or net.sources.games)?  I agree
||that it is a good idea to do so some of the time (it would not
||do to have everyone with a source for a game), but why is it legal?
||Are there no laws about this?  Isn't the net for NET USERS?

Really now. Are you joking?

It's legal because there is no legislation which makes it
illegal. Why on earth would any legislature pass a law to
make it illegal for an organization to remove files from
its own disks?

The net is not "for net users". It happens to be used that way.
The owners of any computer, through the system administrator,
are free to control what is stored on their disks, and are free
to limit newsgroups from arriving at their site, if they so wish.

Would you rather have no access to the net at all?

Dave Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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