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Gregory Bond (gnb@bby.com.au) wrote:
: In article <1995Dec19.012355.25037@levels.unisa.edu.au> xtdn@levels.unisa.edu.au writes:
:
:    As a matter of principle I object in the strongest terms to anyone
:    restricting what information I may or many not access.  And before you
:    claim that you do not impose such restrictions; by the very act of
:    removing someone else's post you do impose exactly a restriction.  The
:    simple truth is that I can filter out bullshit quite nicely by myself.
:
: In making this statement, you expose your lack of understanding about
: how USENET works, both technically and as a community.

I don't think it exposes anything of the sort. I think Phil Herring has
chosen to believe that aus.* groups (and aus.general in particular) are
somehow different to the rest of UseNet. This I think is an unwarranted
assumption. No-one voted to turn aus.general or any other aus.* group from
an unmoderated group to a retromoderated one.

: It is _trivial_ (a 10 second edit to one file) to set up a site to
: ignore the cancels that Phil, myself and a whole band of other
: volunteers generate.  So if this so-called "censorship" annoys you so
: much, ask your news admin to disable it.  And if she refuses (as is
: likely), invest your own dollars and set up your own news server.

The problem is lumping in Phil's content-based cancels with the much more
legitimate spam cancels you and the others issue.

: [I am assuming Phil uses the !cyberspam! or similar convention.  If
: he's not, then he should!]

If Phil uses !cyberspam! then he's got a cheek. HE IS NOT CANCELLING SPAM.
He is censoring based on content. *You* cancel spam, which is fine by me.

Frank Copeland
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