Date: Sun, 04 May 1997 18:09:38 -0400 From: fbsd-isp@launchpad.win.net (Joe Mays - freebsd-isp) To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: News... Message-ID: <AB6@launchpad.win.net>
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>> In my experience, the amount of >> dollars we have spent on legal defense for carrying whatever comes >> down the usenet pipe is approximately $0. > >*so* far. > >If you've been listening to the arguement you'll know that there ARE >groups out there who are starting to put pressure on ISPs carrying >binary groups, pornography in particular. So what? Dropping the groups *then* is a matter of sending one command to ctlinnd. There are also groups fighting for free speech. Given the choice of actions right now I would choose to support the fight for free speech. Giving in now risks both losing customers unnecessarily and implies that the battle is a lost cause when it isn't. >So right now its $0, but the risk is there that it WILL start costing to >keep the groups legally. > > >> This aspect of your argument seems specious to me. > >You don't seem to be thinking ahead. Okay, let me rephrase the statement. Claiming that legal costs are in any way relevant to keeping all usenet groups is a specious argument right now. I'll listen to it when the laws change. Joe Mays
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