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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)
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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
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