Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!lll-tis!mcb
From: mcb@tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Your right to swing your fist stops at my nose!
Summary: USENET on packet radio
Message-ID: <22260@tis.llnl.gov>
Date: 9 Jun 88 21:36:42 GMT
References: <5816@cup.portal.com> <581@picuxa.UUCP> <13@n0atp.UUCP>
Reply-To: mcb@tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch)
Organization: Network XVI Thought Police
Lines: 24

In article <13@n0atp.UUCP> barry@n0atp.UUCP (Barry S. Berg) writes:
> In article <581@picuxa.UUCP>, tgr@picuxa.UUCP (Dr. Emilio Lizardo) writes:
> > Would the system administrator at cup.portal.com please remove this
> > stupid fucker's priveleges?
> 
> I had hoped to put USENET onto packet radio.  It is precisely the fact
> that posters like the above are too common that  will not allow this.  [...]
> [...] So go ahead, feel free to use your favorite four letter words,
> use the NET for your commercial endevours, who cares if the network
> collapses of its own weight, so that you can have the freedom of speech
> to offend the world, or get free advertising.

Would (possibly trivial) encryption of the carried data remove the 
potential FCC problems with four-letter words?  How could Usenet over
packet radio be organized as a set of common-carrier links so that
pinheaded government content regulation does not apply?

Personally, I'd rather have a network in which the content of ones'
articles is a private matter between the poster and his/her/its site
management (& local feeds, perhaps), and is privately funded, than
something that is censored by the government.

Michael C. Berch 
mcb@tis.llnl.gov / {ames,ihnp4,lll-crg,lll-lcc,mordor}!lll-tis!mcb