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From: gds@sri-spam
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Re: Reading other peoples' mail
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Date: Wed, 30-Apr-86 21:24:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Apr 30 21:24:00 1986
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I think we've all gotten off the point a bit here.  This all started
because Andy Beals was reading a piece of mail not addressed to him, but
what's more he intercepted it and returned it, saying "it wasn't worth
*his* (emphasis mine) time to send it".

I can appreciate the difficulties of UUCP mail administration (after
all, I had to do it myself not too long ago) and sometimes you have to
read the mail that gets left in your queues, but you should only do this
in the course of administration.  What Andy was doing, in my opinion,
was outside the bounds of administration, and more along the lines of
censorship.  Unless he is authorized by Lawrence Livermore Labs to
intercept mail at his site and return it if he (personally) feels it is
not worth his time to send, he shouldn't be intercepting it.

This is the kind of thing I was warning about in net.news.*, when people
would start thinking because they were backbone administrators they
could do whatever they felt like because otherwise they would eliminate
certain newsgroups.  I hope the rest of the net is satisfied with these
forms of net.censorship, I'm sure not.

--gregbo