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kjm@buc.edu.au (Kevin Moore) writes:

[...]
>It's usually load, pure and simple. When ACSnet was first superseded
>by AARNet, several sites had such things, and word got around.  The
>sites collapsed under the load of ftp requests. They got rid of the
>GIFs pronto.
[...]

High resource cost can, in my opinion, a legitimate reason to ban
material. It should not, however, be used as a excuse when the real
reason for the ban is doctrial disapproval.

The resource cost of alt.sex and alt.drugs, for example, is quite low.
Moreover, a ban on these newsgroups saves no network resources because
the material is brought over anyway (many times).

>The 60 minutes thing put some political pressure on some sites in the
>US, but load is the usual problem.
[...]

I don't believe there was any such "60 Minutes" program. There have
been some newspaper stories.

- Carl

ANNOTATED REFERENCES

(All these documents are available on-line. Access information follows.)

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library/selection-workbook.ala
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* Selection Policy Writing Workbook (ALA)

The American Library Association's "Workbook on Selection Policy
Writing". Although aimed at textbook and library book selection in
grade and high schools, it also seems applicable to newsgroup
selection. It includes information about how create a selection policy
and how to handle complaints. It also includes a sample selection
policy.

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library/library.porn.real
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* Library Porn -- the newspaper article parodied

A real newspaper article published in the Houston Chronicle. The
parody is in file library.porn.


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library/library.porn
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* Library Porn -- a parody

A parody of a real newspaper article published in the Houston Chronicle. The
parody is by Carl Kadie. It was published in rec.humor.funny.

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If you have gopher, you can browse the CAF archive with the command
   gopher gopher.eff.org

These document(s) are also available by anonymous ftp (the preferred
method) and by email. To get the file(s) via ftp, do an anonymous ftp
to ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4), and get file(s):

  pub/academic/library/selection-workbook.ala
  pub/academic/library/library.porn.real
  pub/academic/library/library.porn

To get the file(s) by email, send email to archive-server@eff.org.
Include the line(s) (be sure to include the space before the file
name):

send acad-freedom/library selection-workbook.ala
send acad-freedom/library library.porn.real
send acad-freedom/library library.porn


-- 
Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
 =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =