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From: rsk@s.cc.purdue.edu (Frozen Wombat)
Newsgroups: misc.misc,news.misc
Subject: Re: The solution to: Re: "We don't get that newsgroup here"
Message-ID: <1885@s.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 8 Jan 88 19:27:34 GMT
References: <693@brandx.rutgers.edu> <505@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <112@falkor.UUCP> <513@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Reply-To: rsk@s.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Frozen Wombat)
Organization: Purdue Computing Center Unix Systems Staff
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In article <513@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>I see, it doesn't matter how useful my postings might be, if the guy
>upstream of me can't afford another disc drive, and I'm not rich enough
>to route everything through my machine, you want to muzzle me.  Now
>*that* is censorship.  Applying this rule would shut every University in
>Europe off the net, to start with, and most of the American ones.

No, that's not censorship.  That's the reality of a system where those
who make the resources available are under no obligation to continue to
do so, except the case of certain semi-commercial service providers.
It is a frequent misconception of Usenet users that free access to the
entire resources of the net is a "right"; it is in reality nothing of the kind.
To rephrase this: you are entitled to whatever soapbox you can pay for;
and I might let you use my soapbox for free.  But if you do (use my soapbox
for free), I reserve the right to pass traffic from you at my discretion.
-- 
Rich Kulawiec, rsk@s.cc.purdue.edu, s.cc.purdue.edu!rsk
PUCC Unix Staff