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From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: ont.events,ont.general,can.general,can.politics
Subject: Re: Leonard Peltier P.O.W.
Message-ID: <244@becker.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 89 14:18:11 GMT
References: <568@yunccn.UUCP> <1840@sparkles.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
Lines: 47

In article <1840@sparkles.dcss.mcmaster.ca> dan@sparkles.UUCP (Dan Trottier) writes:
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|[...]
|Regardless of good intentions the Usenet is not a place where on should
|be canvasing for donations. 
|
|(I'm sorry for posting this but every once in a while it seems people 
| need to be reminded that canvasing for personal causes is not a
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	_______________________________/                 \____ I fail
	to see how you can use this term on the context of the original
	posting.

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| proper use of the net.)
|
|Perhaps from your received funds you can pay us for the disk space and 
|phone cost used for your article.
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	I assume you aren't going to donate same to aid the
	cause of Mr. Pelletier.

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|Your article has been deleted from our system. Had you not asked for 
|money but rather provided a simple address where people could contact
|you if they decided they wanted to support you financially then your
|article would have remained on our system. 
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	This is exceptionally high-handed in my opinion. Perhaps
	if you had cited the numerous complaints you had received
	it *might* make some kind of sense - as it is, it constitutes
	a narrow-minded infringement of the rights of others.

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|Dan Trottier                                            dan@maccs.McMaster.CA
|Dept of Computer Science                       ...!uunet!utai!utgpu!maccs!dan
|McMaster University                                      (416) 525-9140 x3444
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Not so cheerful,
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---mm-U-mm---	"Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue" - Oliver North