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From: heiby@falkor.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
Newsgroups: misc.misc,news.misc
Subject: Re: The solution to: Re: "We don't get that newsgroup here"
Message-ID: <116@falkor.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 88 20:31:15 GMT
References: <505@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <112@falkor.UUCP> <513@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Reply-To: heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
Organization: Luck Dragons, Etc., Riverwoods, IL
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Richard A. O'Keefe (ok@quintus.UUCP) 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.

If this is censorship, then it is self-censorship.  If you do not believe
that you can afford the resources for sufficient computer hardware to carry
the (for example) poetry newsgroup, then it is not *my* fault!  If your
feed doesn't believe they can afford it, then it is not *my* fault!  If
you can't manage to find a feed somewhere else that believes they can
afford it, then it is not *my* fault!  If some site in Europe or California
or wherever is having problems getting a feed of some group or set of
groups, then they can look for another feed.  Maybe they'll have to pay
for some long distance phone calls to get it.  That's not censorship.

(I imagine that) The Chicago Tribune can't afford the space to publish
a regular column that I would write on the subject of 12th century beer.
I'm not rich enough to begin publishing a newspaper, so you want to
muzzle me.  Now *that* is censorship.  (huh??)

No, that is economics.
-- 
Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.UUCP	Moderator: comp.newprod & comp.unix
"Intel architectures build character."