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From: webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber)
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Subject: Courtesy: was Re: The solution to: Re: "We don't get that newsgroup
Message-ID: <707@brandx.rutgers.edu>
Date: 13 Jan 88 04:44:10 GMT
References: <505@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <112@falkor.UUCP> <1089@hao.ucar.edu>
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In article <1089@hao.ucar.edu>, woods@hao.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) writes:
> ....
>  It's called common courtesy and respect for the wishes of his site
>and/or intervening sites. If his site or his feed site has chosen not
>to get a certain newsgroup, there is probably a good reason for it (and

What makes you think that a site manager has training in how best to 
restrict the information that users have access to?  

>even if there isn't, so what? They still made the choice not to get that

Hmmm, it is going to be difficult to reason with someone who doesn't see
a need for ``good reason.''  

>newsgroup). At any rate, that choice should be respected. It has nothing
>to do with censorship; 

If the govenor of Colorado decides that government roads should not be
used to transport material on water skiing in Florida and stations guards
on the state roads to prevent anyone from carrying such tourist
propaganda into Colorado, would it be censorship?

>it's common courtesy.  ...

Or, to put it another way: do you really want to be on a net where
communication is held hostage by sites run by people with opinions
like these?

It is typical of some sites that they would rather accuse other's
users of being unmannered than to restrict their net access to
only those sites that carry the same net classifications that they do.

At the very least, it would only be common courtesy to send Greg a
copy of any message you intended to post to net news to make sure
he didn't think it was inappropriate usage of his site to forward it.

--- BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber)

   Many people resist a change in manners, no matter how useful it
   may be.    ---- Judith Martin's Common Courtesy (Atheneum, 1985)