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From: dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Ostracism Code For News, Mail Wanted
Summary: Censorship...
Message-ID: <2620@sultra.UUCP>
Date: 7 Nov 88 20:44:07 GMT
References: <360@itivax.UUCP>
Organization: Tynan Computers, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <360@itivax.UUCP>, scs@itivax.UUCP (Steve C. Simmons) writes:
> 
> I am looking for ostracism code.  This should be a set of patches to
> news 2.11.14 which would silently bitbucket all postings from <user@site>,
> and a set of patches to smail/sendmail/ucbmail/lmail which would
> refuse sending of mail to <user@site> with an explanatory message,
> and silently bitbucket all mail to *or through* us from <user@site>.
				      ^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Steve Simmons		...!umix!itivax!scs

In a word, this is censorship.  You are certainly within your rights to delete
mail passing through your site, but it's not exactly polite behavior.  I can
understand your wanting to eliminate mail/news from this <user@site>, but
blocking his mail THROUGH your system is NOT the way to go.  What would you do
if people started blocking your mail, because you were a Democrat/Republican
(delete where applicable).  Besides the obvious question of bandwidth, I can't
see why you'd want to block his/her mail passing through your system.  In
effect, you're saying that YOU don't agree with the opinions of HIM/HER, and
as such, refuse to allow OTHER people to come to their own conclusions.  You
could very easily start a "blocking war", making the maps look like spaghetti.
And for what?  Because YOU don't know how to use the KILL feature in 'rn'.
						- Der
BTW;
cross-posting to 99 newsgroups doesn't necessarily mean that you'll get a wider
audience.
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