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Re: ISP: A Public Service (Re: now@freenet.toronto.on.ca)

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From: Richard Sexton
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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From: richard@interlog.com (Richard Sexton)
Subject: Re: ISP: A Public Service (Re: now@freenet.toronto.on.ca)
Date: 1997/02/03
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