Ahouxm.106 net.news utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!houxi!houxd!houxc!hound!houti!houxt!houxn!houxm!mel Wed Dec 30 16:51:32 1981 Net Censorship Flame I object strongly to any netwide efforts to control use of the net. Nothing you can do will stop the really stupid use of the net, and anything you do will slow evolution of the net into what it should become. I object to the net.jokes type use of the net, and won't read the garbage, and it I were administrator of any site, would not post or forward the junk. However, I certainly would not enforce any censorship on any other site, or pass on anyone else's control (except, perhaps, my boss'). I plead with you who control the source of the net code to put in the tools to easily control what a particular site does, from both an administrator's view and that of a user. I hope that all discussion of this, or any other topic relating to the net is relayed to the net. My personal hope is that the net will add to our capability to communicate, and do away with the horrible decisions that are made by committees meeting in "secret" at some conference or other. Mel Haas, houxm!mel ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.