At 2:58 PM 7/31/97 -0400, Sandy Harris wrote:
Dr. Jai Maharaj <jai@mantra.com> wrote:
|At 11:21 AM 7/31/97 -0400, Sandy Harris wrote: |> Dr. Jai Maharaj <jai@mantra.com> writes: |>|> ...where on this scale do you start to object to my actions: |>|>1) I use a killfile to ignore certain messages. |>|>2) I program my personal newsserver to discard certain messages. |>|>3) A group of us, by consensus, program our common newsserver... |>| |>|Unanimous consent? |>| |>|>4) A system admin, with due notice to users, programs a |>|>newserver..... |>| |>|What constitutes "due notice" in the present context? |> |>Postings in news.announce.newusers. | |That's ridiculous. One shopping for an ISP, without |access to the Net, is not in a position to read a |notice in a newsgroup.
No, but any decent ISP (or corporate or institutional system administrator) will . . .
The faact that an ISP supports censorship takes away the "decent" qualification, thus invalidating the other premise and whatever else was built upon it.
. . . suggest reading that newsgroup in their material for new users and/or set up new accounts so they are automatically subscribed to it. & any sensible new user will read & heed.
That is unacceptable since the users would have already paid for the account by that time and signed a contract. Jai Maharaj jai@mantra.com Om Shanti