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In article <3680dfb5.395960647@207.14.113.10>, jerrywl@hotmail.com 
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>I don't understand how that would affect a cross posting policy
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In general:
1) Cross posting is part and parcel of usenet culture.
2) What CC is describing in his AUP is essentially content based 
cancellation. If crossposting is execssive, why doesn't he choose a 
non-content approach to cancellation using the well established 
Breidbart Index.
3) The citeria for cancellations or restriction of service are 
arbitary, contradictory and subjective...you've got freedom of speech, 
just watch what you say.
4) People are free to exercise their right not to read posts. Do they 
expect somebody to hold their hand while the cross the road?


Specifically:
The complaint against me was laughable. It was an article crossposted 
to three groups and was on-topic for all of them. Chris, it would 
appear, couldn't be bothered checking up. 


>and I was under the impression that Chris has had a policy against
>mechanized posting for some time.
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He may have had a policy against it for a while, but he didn't 
implement it until recently. He really has only himself to blame for 
the flack he got for his delay in doing something. 

  
>Also, could you (without getting into personalities) be more specific
>about this bot posting? Since it's not possible for a customer to run
>a bot on an Altopia machine you must mean something else. I can think
>of some possibilities but facts would beat speculation.
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For the purposes of this discussion 'bot posting = mechanised posting. 
I wasn't meaning that somebody had hacked Altopia's servers and was 
running a 'bot from there. 


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