From: J. Michael Diehl <mdiehl@triton.unm.edu>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 93 14:42:05 PDT
To: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Subject: Re: FIDONet Censorship?
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According to Timothy C. May:
> 
> FIDONet operators are sometimes blocking encrypted messages. So what
> else is new?
> Their machines, their rules. Strictly speaking, this is not
> censorship.

I believe I stated this in my original post.  I have no problems with their
right to do this.  I simply wanted to make the point that we need to educate
these people.

> However, we can try to get them to change their rules. Better, route
> around such machines.
> 
> "The Net tends to view censorship as damage and routes around it."

I like it!


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