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ab330@torfree.net (Bob Allisat) writes:

>  A news server or an E-Mail
>  server open to the public
>  may belong to you. It is,
>  however, engaged in the
>  service of the public. You
>  are not allowed to interfere
>  in the process. If you do
>  you should find another
>  line of business. Please.

boB, you're repeating yourself now. You've been squaking
about this since IO trashed your membership, what, 3
years ago? Sigh. If I were to open a news server, charge
people to use it but not impose any upfront restrictions,
then yep, I would have little or no business trying
to tell my customers what they should and shouldn't be
doing. However, aside from possibly the toronto freenet,
the vast majority of isps make you agree to a little
thing called an acceptable use policy that, at the
peril of being disconnected, requires you to obey
certain guidelines above and beyond those enshrined
in the constitution. Why? Not because they're net
cops or control freaks. It's because they realize
that usenet is a service many people like to pay
for. They realize email is a service people like
to pay for. However, if people start noticing
they can't open their email without 535 UCEs
or go to comp.ibm.hardware and begin
to see their newsreader report something
like this:

1000 GOOD AND WET 1-900-FUN-GIRL
1001 TASTE ME. TASTE ME.
1002 cALL fOR mOReeee!!!
1003 ZEBRA CD NOW ONLY $3.95!!
1004 I've got panties, reaall girl panties for sale!
1005 1-800-CAL-SLUT
1006 Found a great phone sex line!!!!
1007 GO 4 IT GUUYSSS!
...
1998 YOU WANT SEX? TRY ME 1-800-555-4141
1999 Anyone discover the P6 bug? Hello? Anyone?
2000 FREE EXOTIC PHOTOS FOR CHILDREN!!!

They're going to stop paying for that service.
And then, dear boB, sysadmins will find themselves
in another line of work. Not because they're upset
some net.cop has taken to canceling your usenet
posts.


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