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Article #584Re: ISP: A Public Service (Re: now@freenet.toronto.on.ca)
From: Richard Sexton
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 00:00
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In article <E4zF62.EKG.0.bloor@torfree.net>, Bob Allisat <ab330@torfree.net> wrote: : Incidentally, we don't call it the Allisat clause >: we call it the Bruce M. Lloyd clause, or just the >: "asshole clause". > >- Democracy tolerates assholes. > >+ Democracy was created by assholes. > >= They used to draw and quarter, hang and shoot assholes. > >~ Now you, Richard, speaking for the many ISP's advocate > or rationalize the internet silencing of malcontents, > cranks, nuts or the less common dissiters and protestors. Hell, I don't care if there are assholes all over the net, and I even give free accounts to a few, but at the point where it costs me money (ie, time, LOTS of time) to give away this free account, they're history. Am I being unresonable ? >_ And you fully understand that in the very near future > everything - taxes, business, talking to your grandma > and doing the groceries - will be done via the Internet. No, not really. Maybe in 50 years, as an option, but not exclusively. -- Richard Sexton richard@alter.nic We are all the Alter.NIC richard@vrx.net http://www.alternic.net
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc3d0,c2c487bc3e4058af X-Google-Attributes: gidfc3d0,public X-Google-Thread: 103731,c2c487bc3e4058af X-Google-Attributes: gid103731,public X-Google-Thread: 10aaae,c2c487bc3e4058af X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaae,public X-Google-Thread: 10643c,c2c487bc3e4058af X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public From: richard@interlog.com (Richard Sexton) Subject: Re: ISP: A Public Service (Re: now@freenet.toronto.on.ca) Date: 1997/02/03 Message-ID: <5d3s6k$5l5@gold.interlog.com> X-Deja-AN: 214052338 references: <32e993a1.360430893@frackit.com> <E4xMKE.8Ap.0.sheppard@torfree.net> <5d08ug$eg7@gold.interlog.com> <E4zF62.EKG.0.bloor@torfree.net> organization: Gryphon Gang North newsgroups: torfree.general,tor.general,ont.general,can.infohighway