From owner-freebsd-isp Mon May 5 14:06:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA20189 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 5 May 1997 14:06:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA20181 for ; Mon, 5 May 1997 14:06:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id QAA19480; Mon, 5 May 1997 16:10:14 -0500 Received: from p75.mixcom.com(198.137.186.25) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma019405; Mon May 5 16:09:50 1997 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970505160824.00aaac24@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 16:08:24 -0500 To: Adrian Chadd From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: News... Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990