From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Apr 17 08:33:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA12241 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 08:33:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.intercenter.net (mir.intercenter.net [207.211.128.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA12199 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 08:33:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 10559 invoked from network); 17 Apr 1997 15:33:46 -0000 Received: from bigboy.intercenter.net (207.211.128.17) by mir.intercenter.net with SMTP; 17 Apr 1997 15:33:46 -0000 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:33:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Ron Bickers To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Binaries in Usenet (was: News...) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Michael Dillon wrote: > A lot of people are afraid that by dropping sex newsgroups specifically, > they will become legally vulnerable since they are EDITTING the material > on their news server based on its content. But there's an interesting Blockbuster doesn't have an X-rated movie section. Does that mean they're editing material? No. I'm not a lawyer either, but not carrying a.b.p.e is not "editing" anything, it's simply making it not available at all. There's nothing illegal about that. > IMHO the solution is to clean up binaries from USENET and force people to > use file transfer protocols (FTP, HTTP, DCC, FSP) to transfer files. I second that. It's out of control. Wonder what kind of bandwidth would be freed up if that were to happen. --- Ron