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In article <root.725487038@maui> kbibb@maui.qualcomm.com (Ken Bibb) writes:

>In <BzxMJI.LG4@mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
>
>>That would be "uunet".  The person behind the Argyc program is probably
>>a paying customer of Uunet Corp., so there's nothing that can be done
>>about it that way. Uunet /can't/ refuse service based on content...
>
>But can it refuse service because a *human* isn't behind the posts?

Who can prove that?  I don't believe it's true.  I'd lay money that
Argic's choice of messages to follow up is motivated by a similar kind
of pattern-scanning mechanism to Kibo's (i.e. find /usr/spool/news
-exec grep -i turk) but I think that someone actually attempts to
write at least some of the prose.

But besides that, why should it?  UUNET's job is to funnel news to and
from paying customers.  Why should it decline that service from
anatolia just because someone's put an automaton behind it?

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