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From: kak@stc-auts.UUCP (Kris Kugel)
Newsgroups: misc.misc,news.misc
Subject: Re: Courtesy: was Re: The solution to: Re: "We don't get that newsgroup
Message-ID: <241@stc-auts.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 88 20:12:43 GMT
References: <505@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <112@falkor.UUCP> <1089@hao.ucar.edu> <707@brandx.rutgers.edu>
Organization: Storage Technology Corp, Louisville, CO
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Summary: USENET is not a public utility!!!

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

HE'S RESPONSABLE FOR THE SYSTEM.  This includes disk usage and phone costs.

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

Ok, but make the example more like the real situation!  It's more
like a neighbor asking me to maintain several magazine subscriptions
for magazines which *I* have no interest in just so he can borrow them
from me after I get them.

We don't always get all news groups that we are interested in, and
have reliability problems with some of the ones we do get.  
the internal gateway machine people don't have the extra hours of time
necessary to fix all our problems.  A solution would be for
us to develop our own, independent connections.  The only problem with
doing this for random, independent newsgroups in general is the difficulty
of keeping track of which machines carry which newsgroups.

We don't pay anybody money specificly for usenet yet; when we do,
THEN I'll complain if we have problems.

	Kris A. Kugel
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