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Article #7Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups
From: Bob Daniel
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 00:00
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In article <31f2e9fe.6338427@news.skypoint.com>, jmanso19@skypoint.com (Jim Manson) wrote: > rgd@inforamp.net (Bob Daniel) wrote: > > > >Amusing. But I think a closer analogy would be: the drug dealer stops > >selling out the front door, but there's so much leaking out the side door, > >windows, chimney etc. that the junkies still hang around. They just have > >to look a little harder, or go to any other crack house on the street where > >the front door is still wide open. > > And right there you have the basic answer in your grasp. > They stop selling and the junkies go to another house on > the same street. Which means that the dealer cannot be > convicted of selling drugs when the sale is made next door. > Therefore the dealer has lowered his risk. > Absolutely. No argument. But the dealer may not be in business much longer if all the junkies go up the street. Could we possible stretch this analogy a little further? You know what they say, a discussion without an analogy is like a fish without a bicycle. Or something.... -- 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: fb1ea,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1ea,public X-Google-Thread: 115882,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid115882,public X-Google-Thread: 13d6bc,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid13d6bc,public X-Google-Thread: 10643c,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public X-Google-Thread: 10aaae,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaae,public X-Google-Thread: 1046d5,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid1046d5,public From: rgd@inforamp.net (Bob Daniel) Subject: Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups Date: 1996/07/22 Message-ID: <rgd-2207960011110001@ts30-07.tor.istar.ca> X-Deja-AN: 169957114 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> <satchell-2107961314220001@ppp66.accutek.com> <rgd-2107961900550001@ts43-06.tor.istar.ca> <31f2e9fe.6338427@news.skypoint.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