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In article <8234@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
|In article <1992Dec29.134900.22459@refrig.dixie.com> todd@refrig.dixie.com (Todd H.) writes:
|>I disagree.  Uunet is a business, and can do anything it wants to.  The
|>communication links they carry aren't regulated by the government, so far as
|>I know, and they aren't a public utility, so they're free to cut off anyone
|>that they want.
|
|Actually, uunet is trying to establish itself as a common carrier. This does
|Good Things for all of Usenet, like removing individual sites' liability for
|transporting messages with illegal content. Unfortunately, it also means that
|they cannot refuse to carry traffic for any given customer.

Interesting. I thought a common carrier was not only allowed, but
pretty much required, to cut off someone engaging in harassment.

Or is that something coming under the head of a "tariff"?


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