Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!umn-d-ub!umn-cs!bungia!com50!n0atp!barry
From: barry@n0atp.UUCP (Barry S. Berg)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Your right to swing your fist stops at my nose!
Keywords: The NET need not die...
Message-ID: <21@n0atp.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 88 21:12:49 GMT
References: <5816@cup.portal.com> <581@picuxa.UUCP> <13@n0atp.UUCP> <2744@ttrdc.UUCP> <974@ucsd.EDU> <14@n0atp.UUCP> <10288@ncc.Nexus.CA>
Reply-To: barry@n0atp.UUCP (Barry S. Berg)
Followup-To: news.admin
Organization: N0ATP, Amateur Radio Packet Gateway, St. Paul, MN
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In article <10288@ncc.Nexus.CA> lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
   [my stuff deleted....]
>The discussion about content, distribution, etc., is not relevent. The
>one section of the rules governing amateur radio that wipes this entire
>concept out is this:
>
>	Only an amateur radio operator may initiate any communication
>	that takes place via amateur radio.
>
>This means that "every" article would have to be verified by a licensed
>amateur prior to it's transmission over the air. That same operator would
>also be liable in any subsequent legal dispute over the article.
>--lyndon  VE6BBM
           ^^^^^^^   (Canadian Amateur Call Sign)


   I did not find that quote in Part 97 of FCC's rules... Noticed the VE
   Call.. If that is the case for Canada then true the net would not
   be able to use Amateur Radio in Canada.
>


>Sorry folks, but it's time everyone realized that if usenet is to
>continue, all the users will have to start sharing the costs. Period.

   In any case whatever the transmission media, the initial point of this
   posting was that of obscenities.  We don't need them, and you insult
   more than the person you are flaming with them.  One advantage of 
   having people use common sense and restraint is that there may be 
   advantages as well for performing in a civil manner.  Which was for
   example, low cost bandwidth.
-- 
Barry S. Berg                  	  DOMAIN: barry@n0atp.N0ATP.MN.ORG
N0ATP Packet Radio Gateway        UUCP: {...}amdahl!bungia!n0atp!barry
"Speech is civilization itself--it is silence which isolates." --Thomas Mann
"Moderation in all things, most especially moderation." --Author as yet unknown.