richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) (04/10/89)
In article <8176@chinet.chi.il.us> patrick@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick A. Townson) writes: > >Do as you wish with the feed you offer your users, but don't you DARE tamper >with what is entrusted to you to pass to the backbone, or from the backbone >to some other site. My, how officious. If your feed is doing this, get a new feed. Or take it to stupid peoples court. -- ``Parents who have children, have children who have children'' richard@gryphon.COM decwrl!gryphon!richard gryphon!richard@elroy.jpl.NASA.GOV
patrick@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick A. Townson) (04/11/89)
In article <14508@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: >My, how officious. >If your feed is doing this, get a new feed. Or take it to stupid >peoples court. It is not a matter of being officious at all. It is a matter of common courtesy that if you choose to pass a news group, you pass it intact. If the news group by and large offends your delicacies or whatever, then you discontinue receiving/forwarding the group. There is no trouble with the chinet feed at all -- in either direction -- that I know of. But I don't post messages to be read exclusively on chinet or on its immediate neighbors. Suppose I want someone on the other side of the continent to read it. Am I now expected to re-write some map to work my way around a bozo at some site who may or may not feel like passing my message to his neighbors? Your quick and dirty solution, 'get a new feed' to some extent nullifies what Usenet is about, doesn't it? -- Patrick Townson patrick@chinet.chi.il.us / ptownson@bu-cs.bu.edu / US Mail: 60690-1570 FIDO: 115/743 / AT&T Mail: 529-6378 (!ptownson) / MCI Mail: 222-4956
john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) (04/13/89)
In article <8197@chinet.chi.il.us>, patrick@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick A. Townson) writes: > In article <14508@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: > >If your feed is doing this, get a new feed. Or take it to stupid > >peoples court. > Your quick and dirty solution, 'get a new feed' to some extent nullifies > what Usenet is about, doesn't it? > Jeff, Jeff, Jeff... Where oh where are you? If ever the Judge were needed, it is now. "Get a new feed" is exactly what USENET is all about. -- John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (508) 626-1101 ...!decvax!frog!john, john@frog.UUCP, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw@eddie.mit.edu Healed Head BAD, Bleeding Head GOOD!