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We run Netnews at a large (20,000 user) VM/CMS installation.  We get a
full feed and give read and post access to all users.  With that many
people involved, we've had some unfortunate situations where our users
have posted inappropriate and/or offensive things.  We've also had
situations where our users have complained about offensive postings
that were not posted at our installation.

Our management is becoming increasingly concerned, perhaps (though I
think and hope they're bluffing) to the point of shutting down the whole
thing.  I'd like to find out how other places handle these sorts of
things, in particular:

1. Do universities limit student posting in any way?

2. How do you deal with a user who posts inappropriate stuff?  What
   kinds of things do you deem "inappropriate"?

3. What do you do when users complain about articles posted at another
   site?  Our most recent complaint was against a rotated posting
   in rec.humor that contained racist, anti-semitic, anti-homosexual,
   foul language, and everything else.

4. Are there electronic filters for any of this?  If so, do they just
   look for specific "bad words" or are more sophisticated things
   being done?

5. Our management is concerned that we could be sued for things our users
   use our system to say or for things (said by users of other systems)
   that our computer propogates.  Is there any precedence for this?

Thanks in advance for your advice, and I appolgize if I'm bringing up
a topic that has already been discussed to death.

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From: Aviel Roy-Shapira <AVIR@BGUVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: The Prisoner (Re: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA)
Message-ID: <657AVIR@BGUVM>
Date: Saturday, 10 Feb 1990 15:46:05 IST
Organization: Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
References: <408@wshb.UUCP> <18825@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <2059@syma.sussex.ac.uk>

Are you referring to the 'Who am I - You are No. Six' series?
That was a weird one. I'd like to know whatever happend to the series,
who the hell  he was? And, pleas let me know about any novelisations.