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Article #105Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups
From: Bob Daniel
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 00:00
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In article <4rs9m5$rf9@milo.vcn.bc.ca>, lalee@vcn.bc.ca (Lawrence Lee) wrote: > > I would ask you Robert why Usenet newsgroups are any more illegal than > the content that can be achieved via. gopher, FTP, IRC, telnet, WWW... > It could be argued that the distinction is one of STORAGE (on news server disks) vs. TRANSMISSION of the nasty ones-and-zeros in question. This of course inspires the argument that even TRANSMISSION via the web etc. involves SOME storage on iStars property, however transient. So then it becomes a question of HOW LONG is it stored. The other angle is this matter of foreknowledge. Istar can't reasonably be expected to monitor all web traffic, email etc. for illegal content. (And don't even SUGGEST it!!!)(grin) But they CAN be resonably sure that there will always be SOME "illegal content" in SOME of these newsgroups. This really SHOULD be argued in court, and on that basis I would like to see the full feed reinstated. -- Bob Daniel rgd@inforamp.net Toronto, Canada http://www.inforamp.net/~rgd
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11544f,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid11544f,public X-Google-Thread: 12c2cc,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid12c2cc,public X-Google-Thread: 115882,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid115882,public X-Google-Thread: 10643c,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public X-Google-Thread: fb1ea,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1ea,public X-Google-Thread: 10aaae,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaae,public X-Google-Thread: 1046d5,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid1046d5,public X-Google-Thread: 13d6bc,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid13d6bc,public From: rgd@inforamp.net (Bob Daniel) Subject: Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups Date: 1996/07/08 Message-ID: <rgd-0807962243540001@ts10-04.tor.istar.ca> X-Deja-AN: 167303137 distribution: inet references: <4rmsbp$5ur@insight.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <jbtoacf.-0707960850350001@ip93-106.tor.interlog.com> <4ro8na$du@news.intranet.ca> <radfordr-0807961957040001@ts39-13.tor.istar.ca> <4rs9m5$rf9@milo.vcn.bc.ca> organization: iSTAR Internet Inc. newsgroups: inforamp.general,inforamp.support,alt.censorship,comp.org.eff.talk,can.legal,can.infohighway,tor.general,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,alt.society.civil-liberty,ont.general