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Date:      Mon, 05 May 1997 16:08:24 -0500
From:      "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.psinet.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: News...
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19970505160824.00aaac24@mixcom.com>

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At 02:53 PM 5/4/97 +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>Personally I couldn't care less about binary newsgroups. If someone wanted
>to post people porn, they should setup a web or ftp site. Proxy caches
>(which any decent ISP enforces for their own sake) would cache it, the
>ISPs which users then connect to to view this crap on the net aren't
>liable. (In my interpretation anyway, someone correct me if I'm wrong).

They better have password protection *and* user verification or you will be
responsible, as well as blacking out any "preview" pictures.

We shut down one locally for the preview problem.  Besides, they didn't pay
the Internic fee, so they only worked locally.

Everyone's best bet is to keep the government out of it or at least
minimize the laws and keep the ISP from being responsible, but the first
implies that we should "police" ourselves.


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Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator
jeff@mixcom.net

MIX Communications
Serving the Internet since 1990



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