Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!hoxna!houxm!mhuxj!mhuxm!mhuxn!mhuxb!mhuxr!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.jobs,net.news Subject: Re: Headhunters in net.jobs Message-ID: <2340@nsc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Feb-85 19:35:00 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.2340 Posted: Sat Feb 9 19:35:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Feb-85 06:32:21 EST References: <1119@amdahl.UUCP> Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) Distribution: net Organization: The Village Lines: 24 Xref: watmath net.followup:4439 net.jobs:999 net.news:3122 Summary: In article <1119@amdahl.UUCP> gam@amdahl.UUCP (gam) writes: >> There is the basic reality that we have been unable to get sites to upgrade >> to B news, much less 2.10.2 (which is to their own advantage, fer goodnews >> sake). We simply have no power upon a site to do or not do anything, and >> that includes having them not ship news to another site. > >It is very simple, really. If "The Solution" becomes a conduit for >advertising to Usenet, I will no longer allow their articles to pass >thru here. This applies to any other site wishing to post advertisements >(as opposed to press announcements or individuals' commercial >transactions). Hmm.... I seem to remember that Qantel made the same comment about hercules after Frank Adrian's comments about Stagate, and got roundly beaten bloody for censorship. Isn't this also just another form of censorship, and why should we allow this and the precedents involved when we haven't allowed any previous restrictions of people's freedoms? chuq -- From the ministry of silly talks: Chuq Von Rospach {allegra,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA Life, the Universe, and lots of other stuff is a trademark of AT&T Bell Labs