🚀 go-pugleaf

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In article <45qvl8$oc8@oban.cc.ic.ac.uk>, vsn@ic.ac.uk (Vartan Narinian) writes:
>pyld@grove.iup.edu writes:
>>
>>I don't know if that is his response, but it sure is mine.  If he is offering
>>a service with no conditions or responsibilities, he can pretty much do as he
>>pleases.  Why should he notify AOLers?  They obviously figured it out.
>
>On the other hand, it would have been nice if he returned the email with
>a note saying "Your message is returned to you unprocessed. We currently
>do not accept email from your domain." Just like anon.penet.fi used to
>do with the binaries newsgroups.

He might have, but keep in mind that AOL all but _told_ him to kill access
from their domain.  Why did'nt AOL inform its users that they could no longer
use the utexas gateway?

>I'm sorry to see the gateway go. However I'm sure Dave Hayes will be happy
>to set up a gateway for AOL'ers. C'mon Dave. As someone else said, put your
>gateway where your mouth is!

Oh, but he can't.  His bosses won't let him.  I think that Fletcher Maddox
ought to accuse the Big Guys (tm) at JPL of restricting free speech by _not_
offering a gateway.  Oh, the irony!


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