guads@nmtvax.UUCP (03/10/85)
While talking to one of our system administrators about the
legality of deleting net postings which come to our system, he
suggested I post this to net.net, but there is no net.net, so
here it goes to net.legal, where it seems to me it belongs any-
way...
Why is it legal (or is it?) for the administrators to delete
postings (such as from net.source or net.sources.games)? I agree
that it is a good idea to do so some of the time (it would not
do to have everyone with a source for a game), but why is it legal?
Are there no laws about this? Isn't the net for NET USERS?
I would appreciate any feedback on this, opinions, laws, ideas...
--
-Lautzy (Romulan)
"Herbert, you are STIFF!"...dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) (03/14/85)
In article <348@nmtvax.UUCP> guads@nmtvax.UUCP writes: || Why is it legal (or is it?) for the administrators to delete ||postings (such as from net.source or net.sources.games)? I agree ||that it is a good idea to do so some of the time (it would not ||do to have everyone with a source for a game), but why is it legal? ||Are there no laws about this? Isn't the net for NET USERS? Really now. Are you joking? It's legal because there is no legislation which makes it illegal. Why on earth would any legislature pass a law to make it illegal for an organization to remove files from its own disks? The net is not "for net users". It happens to be used that way. The owners of any computer, through the system administrator, are free to control what is stored on their disks, and are free to limit newsgroups from arriving at their site, if they so wish. Would you rather have no access to the net at all? Dave Sherman The Law Society of Upper Canada Toronto -- {utzoo pesnta nrcaero utcs hcr}!lsuc!dave {allegra decvax ihnp4 linus}!utcsri!lsuc!dave