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In <31e5e074.5203429@news.io.org>, frankj@io.org (Frank Job) writes:

>>Many thanks!  I don't see comp.os.vms in there!  :-)
>>
>>
>This is exactly the point.  iStar, as a private company in a free
>enterprise country have 100% the right to decide what to provide on
>their servers.  We might question the reasoning but not the action.
>Beckers doesn't sell bondage mags (last I checked) and nobody cries
>censorship.

Amen!

>Just go where you find what you want.  If iStar is aiming at Big Biz
>getting rid of sex related items is almost mandatory.  Can you imagine
>employees of My Big Biz settling back to peruse alt.sex.etcera while
>the female President walks by.  hmmmmm

Besides, if they're aiming at Big Biz, alt.sex.* is really of little use
to their primary market and carrying it would do little for them but eat
up disk space.

Hey, I run a music-oriented BBS.  We have numerous local music-oriented
message and file areas, carry FidoNet music-related echoes, a couple
specialty music networks, and (when I get the feed working again)
rec.music.* and alt.music.* and similar newsgroups.

Am I a left-wing, naive, censoring bastard then, because I don't carry
KinkNet or alt.sex.binaries.*?  Should I have my name slammed
world-wide, as Bob has done with iStar's, because I don't cater to his
tastes?

Phooey.



 Your friend and mine,
 Matt
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