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From: patrick@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick A. Townson)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Freedom of stupidity, was (Re: Obligations (Re: Freedom of hate))
Message-ID: <8197@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 11 Apr 89 06:39:16 GMT
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Reply-To: patrick@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick A. Townson)
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In article <14508@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
  
>My, how officious.
   
>If your feed is doing this, get a new feed. Or take it to stupid
>peoples court.

It is not a matter of being officious at all. It is a matter of common
courtesy that if you choose to pass a news group, you pass it intact. If
the news group by and large offends your delicacies or whatever, then you
discontinue receiving/forwarding the group. 

There is no trouble with the chinet feed at all -- in either direction --
that I know of. But I don't post messages to be read exclusively on chinet
or on its immediate neighbors. Suppose I want someone on the other side of
the continent to read it. 

Am I now expected to re-write some map to work my way around a bozo at 
some site who may or may not feel like passing my message to his neighbors?

Your quick and dirty solution, 'get a new feed' to some extent nullifies
what Usenet is about, doesn't it? 


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