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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (gam)
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Subject: Re: Headhunters in net.jobs
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Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 16:32:23 EST
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> >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?

Yes, it is, but only if you can't tell the difference between an
ad by a headhunter and a political opinion by a member of the Usenet
community.
-- 
Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!gam