-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Ryan Lackey wrote:
I believe the web or the internet as a whole are now large and important enough to Joe Sixpack that shutting them off to stop illegal activity is infeasible -- I do not agree that USENET is. I think 2 weeks of press in the US about "USENET, the network used by kiddie porn photographers to trade photos, must be shut down" would be enough to shut usenet in the US down.
I beleave that this is quite unlikely. Usenet is infact bigger then the internet as a whole. Shutting down usenet would be a difficalt task, how are you going to convinvince all thouse peaple who like usenet to give it up. In fact how are you going to convinve copernise like zippo and altoba who are dedcated to providing usenet connectiverty to give up there primery money sorce. - -- Please excuse my spelling as I suffer from agraphia see the url in my header. Never trust a country with more peaple then sheep. ex-net.scum and proud You Say To People "Throw Off Your Chains" And They Make New Chains For Themselves? --Terry Pratchett. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNLwLyqQK0ynCmdStAQFOuwP+LpitV9bYaMMSvcMN7PkLX+UfpsPnoCwH mNGueb3UV2Nf4h692SFcwy+bYrLhQRU0pZMuk3INNpUuVQ2CERBa29aSNfas9OiD e7u8LHziHH6c9wuwLpTf4ZbZ3cxvhkXHnWSaM/IPJ+pdlvJBd5koiFHyqmxLsLwF uok0uXOGkaQ= =C5IV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----