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Re: Master SPAM list

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From: Hartmann Schaffer
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 00:00
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Arthur D. Mira wrote:
> ...
> Usenet *IS A PUBLIC FORUM* but *GOVERNMENTAL* involvement
> should extend no further than is absolutely necessary, while ensuring
> that freedom of speech is protected.
> 
> The issue is that there is a very real fear that since no clear and
> defined distinction has been drawn between e-mail and usenet,
> and is further impaired by the use of with a duality of meaning in
> terminology, then the GOVERNMENT AND IT'S BUREAUCRATS
> will act without distinction and with a heavy hand.
> ...

Isn't a public meeting on any particular subject a public forum?  How
well do you think somebody would be received who thinks he can blast his
ads wuth a loudspeaker through a meeting of a gardening club?

-- 

Hartmann Schaffer
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
schaffer@netcom.ca (hs)
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From: Hartmann Schaffer <schaffer@netcom.ca>
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Date: 1998/03/30
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