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From: arnold@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Ken Arnold%CGL)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: Junker
Message-ID: <9896@cgl.ucsf.edu.ucsfcgl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Jun-86 22:13:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: cgl.9896
Posted: Thu Jun 26 22:13:46 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jun-86 05:59:05 EDT
References: <282@ubc-cs.UUCP> <1509@brl-smoke.ARPA> <289@ubc-cs.UUCP> <457@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Reply-To: arnold@cgl.ucsf.edu.UUCP (Ken Arnold%CGL)
Organization: Computer Graphics Laboratory, UCSF
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In article <457@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> George Robbins writes:
>If you want to cut transmission costs, be selective about what you
>transmit.  If an article does not meet your criteria, then just can it
>and let it try to find some other path to it's destination, *but don't
>alter it*.

Hear, hear!  It seems to me that there is a real *ethical* problem with
the junker, which is that if I submit an article which goes through a
junker site, it can come out the other end with my name still signed to
something I didn't write.  This is not to label it censorship -- that
it is not.  But it is a form of forgery, in that the article I posted
is deliberately altered and then passed on with my name still
attached.  That sounds pretty unethical to me.

		Ken Arnold