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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MEAN18 - is pirated!
Message-ID: <9819@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 88 18:09:01 GMT
References: <878@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> <23198@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: MEAN18

In article <23198@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> davidg@janus.Berkeley.EDU (David Gaertner) writes:
| [...]
| A MODERATOR would prevent illegal acts such as the posting of
| copyrighted software!  Granted that the garbage factor is low in
| comp.binaries.ibm.pc, there still should be a moderator to prevent
| postings of things like VIRUSES and PIRATED programs.

Well...... a moderator could *attempt* to do so, but I would suspect
that if very many people want to make the moderator personally
responsible for the content of the group, there is going to be very
little in it.

Beyond testing that there is no obvious copyright notice, and that the
program doesn't obviously modify itself or anything else in the system,
I think the moderator is not responsible. In fact, the main reason for
having a moderator is to keep discussions out of the group.

Would someone influential **PLEASE** appoint Rahul Dhesi (or some
qualified person, even if not a personal friend of the net-gods) as
moderator and let's get this going. I think it's time for alt.pc-binary,
since the net is really messing this up.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me