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From: horne-scott@CS.YALE.EDU (Scott Horne)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Do you restrict your users?
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Date: 15 Feb 90 06:20:05 GMT
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In article <1990Feb12.052427.4143@agate.berkeley.edu> gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) writes:
>In article <90042.134648LRL@PSUVM.BITNET>, LRL@psuvm (Linda Littleton) writes:
<
<<We run Netnews at a large (20,000 user) VM/CMS installation.  We get a
<<full feed and give read and post access to all users.  With that many
<<people involved, we've had some unfortunate situations where our users
<<have posted inappropriate and/or offensive things.

Offensive to whom?  Who is to decide?

<  One possibility would be to restrict undergraduates to a
<smaller distribution. Most of what undergraduates have to say is
<of no interest to anyone anywhere anyway.

This arrogant retort hardly merits refutation.

					--Scott

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