Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!gatech!gt-stratus!chen
From: chen@gt-stratus.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Censorship (was Re: I ain't afraid of no Batwoman)
Message-ID: <864@gt-stratus.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 30-Aug-87 03:42:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: gt-strat.864
Posted: Sun Aug 30 03:42:14 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 30-Aug-87 20:31:48 EDT
References: <1064@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: chen@gt-stratus.UUCP (Ray Chen)
Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech
Lines: 35

Would you people stop discussing this?  Or at least move it
out of this newsgroup?

Your "votes" don't mean a thing in this case and your suggestions
on censoring Mr. Nobody (assuming we even find the person) carry
about as much weight as Mr. Nobody's suggestion that we censor
Cheryl.

If all the news administrators feeding batcomputer decided to
shut Cheryl off, there'd be nothing she could do about it.
And if the powers-that-be at Cornell decided to restrict her
account from posting to the net there'd be nothing we could
do about that either.

I seriously doubt any news administrator will implement Nobody's
suggestion.  Otherwise we would have started long ago, probably
with Rich Rosen :-).  (Does he still post or have I been avoiding
the right groups?  :-)  

So give all the news administrators some credit.  (Hi, Greg. :-)

Knowledge of how to selectively nuke people's postings/mail
has been around for a long time and "let's kick so-and-so off
the net" has been tried many times (anyone still remember rjv and
Jeff Sargent?  A truly masterful flame.) and has always failed.

Once upon a time, a school tried to shut down Tim Maroney.  If
Tim Maroney can still post to the net, I think Cheryl's safe.

So y'all go on home.

	Ray Chen
	chen@gatech

(A news administrator.)