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Article #573Re: ISP: A Public Service (Re: now@freenet.toronto.on.ca)
From: Rick Pikul
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 00:00
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Bob Allisat (ab330@torfree.net) wrote: : Richard Sexton (richard@interlog.com) wrote: : : While I may have over 100 free website on my server and handle mail for : : hundreds of poeple who need it and can't afford to pay for it, this is : : at my discretion, and if sombody, whether free or pay for, and they're : : say, spamming or geting 30M of mail a day, you're suggesting I should : : put up with this ? : One more question: How do : your thoughts jibe with the : Electronic Bill of Rights? : "your discretion" (and I : appreciate the FCN site BTW) : and our rights sound like : contradictory terms. Bob, do you have some problem with the concept of private property? His server is just that: _HIS_ server. He can set any restrictions or requirements he wishes on people using it, if they don't like his rules they don't have to use his server. If he wanted to he could require that, in order to use his server, a person has to walk from Pickering to Mississauga buck naked and painted pea green (not that I would expect him to have many users if he did :} In this country you have the right to freedom of movement, but if you don't get off my property when I tell you to I _will_ throw you off. -- Phoenix, FALH
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc3d0,c2c487bc3e4058af X-Google-Attributes: gidfc3d0,public X-Google-Thread: 10643c,c2c487bc3e4058af X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public X-Google-Thread: 10aaae,c2c487bc3e4058af X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaae,public X-Google-Thread: 103731,c2c487bc3e4058af X-Google-Attributes: gid103731,public From: phoenix@torfree.net (Rick Pikul) Subject: Re: ISP: A Public Service (Re: now@freenet.toronto.on.ca) Date: 1997/02/01 Message-ID: <E4wow6.IK6.0.sheppard@torfree.net> X-Deja-AN: 213670649 references: <E3p33y.92K.0.sheppard@torfree.net> <E4HEH6.G8E.0.sheppard@torfree.net> <32e993a1.360430893@frackit.com> <E4qy53.DID.0.bloor@torfree.net> <5co090$hn3@gold.interlog.com> <E4vnMD.Fqn.0.queen@torfree.net> organization: Toronto Free-Net newsgroups: torfree.general,tor.general,ont.general,can.infohighway