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Article #36Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups
From: Stephen Satchell
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 00:00
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In article <31f2624e.411715@news.inforamp.net>, mackbig@inforamp.net (Andrew Mackie) wrote: > 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. Time to buy a clue, Mr. Mackie. The *proper* analogy would be that the drug dealer stopped selling heroin, crack, weed, and hash, but continues to sell Herbal Ecstesy. -- Stephen Satchell, Satchell Evaluations http://www.accutek.com/~satchell Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim -- George Santayana
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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: fb1ea,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1ea,public X-Google-Thread: 115882,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid115882,public X-Google-Thread: 10643c,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public X-Google-Thread: 1046d5,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid1046d5,public X-Google-Thread: 10aaae,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaae,public X-Google-Thread: 13d6bc,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid13d6bc,public From: satchell@accutek.com (Stephen Satchell) Subject: Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups Date: 1996/07/21 Message-ID: <satchell-2107961314220001@ppp66.accutek.com> X-Deja-AN: 169334572 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> <31f2624e.411715@news.inforamp.net> organization: Satchell Evaluations 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 x-copyright: Copyright 1996 Satchell Evaluations, all rights reserved