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Article #34Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups
From: Andrew Mackie
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 00:00
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satchell@accutek.com (Stephen Satchell) wrote: >I dunno how it works in Canada, but in the United States a judge (and a >jury, for that matter) will accept a good-faith act in an attempt to abide >by the law in a very positive light. So by showing that they tried to >obey the law by getting rid of those newsgroups that on their face contain >illegal content, they can ride through any complaint without the water >ever getting above the legal Plimsoll line. A drug dealer stops selling heroin and crack, but still sells weed and hash. The courts would definitely commend them for trying to be more legal. Almost legal does not cut it. Ban everything or nothing. >That's good business strategy. >-- >Stephen Satchell, Satchell Evaluations >http://www.accutek.com/~satchell >Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim -- George Santayana -- Andrew Mackie, mackbig@inforamp.net (not for long) going to Interlog. Thank you Istar, for destroying the best ISP in Toronto.(service,shell,censorship)Inforamp since'94.
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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: 13d6bc,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid13d6bc,public X-Google-Thread: 115882,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid115882,public X-Google-Thread: fb1ea,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1ea,public X-Google-Thread: 1046d5,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid1046d5,public X-Google-Thread: 10aaae,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaae,public X-Google-Thread: 10643c,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public From: mackbig@inforamp.net (Andrew Mackie) Subject: Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups Date: 1996/07/21 Message-ID: <31f2624e.411715@news.inforamp.net> X-Deja-AN: 169284258 distribution: inet references: <4rmsbp$5ur@insight.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <4sf5ia$428@news.inforamp.net> <radfordr-1607962133300001@ts33-13.tor.istar.ca> <4shftu$jpr@news.inforamp.net> <DuoAwo.CrB@ferret.ocunix.on.ca> <4siuqa$qa@news.inforamp.net> <31ed8a32.1048590@news.skypoint.com> <4slqbb$7bj@galileo.cuug.ab.ca> <31ef0013.4611667@news.skypoint.com> <4sp5dk$mia@galileo.cuug.ab.ca> <31f03631.8524472@news.skypoint.com> <satchell-1907962314320001@ppp59.accutek.com> 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