Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!hplabs!amdahl!gam From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (gam) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.jobs,net.news Subject: Re: Headhunters in net.jobs Message-ID: <1121@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 16:32:23 EST Article-I.D.: amdahl.1121 Posted: Sun Feb 10 16:32:23 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Feb-85 12:41:36 EST References: <1119@amdahl.UUCP> <2340@nsc.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Blue Mouse Trailer Resort, Hellmouth, CA Lines: 17 Xref: utcs net.followup:4315 net.jobs:987 net.news:2700 > >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