From: "Dr. Jai Maharaj" <jai@mantra.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 03:25:53 +0800
To: freedom-knights@jetcafe.org
Subject: Re: Entrust Technologies's Solo - free download
In-Reply-To: <199707311858.OAA10505@mail.storm.ca>
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At 2:58 PM 7/31/97 -0400, Sandy Harris wrote:
> Dr. Jai Maharaj <jai@mantra.com> wrote:
>
>|At 11:21 AM 7/31/97 -0400, Sandy Harris wrote:
>|> Dr. Jai Maharaj <jai@mantra.com> writes:
>|>|> ...where on this scale do you start to object to my actions:
>|>|>1) I use a killfile to ignore certain messages.
>|>|>2) I program my personal newsserver to discard certain messages.
>|>|>3) A group of us, by consensus, program our common newsserver...
>|>|
>|>|Unanimous consent?
>|>|
>|>|>4) A system admin, with due notice to users, programs a 
>|>|>newserver.....
>|>|
>|>|What constitutes "due notice" in the present context?
>|>
>|>Postings in news.announce.newusers.
>|
>|That's ridiculous.  One shopping for an ISP, without
>|access to the Net, is not in a position to read a
>|notice in a newsgroup. 
>
>No, but any decent ISP (or corporate or institutional system
> administrator) will . . .

The faact that an ISP supports censorship takes away
the "decent" qualification, thus invalidating the
other premise and whatever else was built upon it.

> . . . suggest reading that newsgroup in their
> material for new users and/or set up new accounts so they
> are automatically subscribed to it. & any sensible new user
> will read & heed.

That is unacceptable since the users would have already
paid for the account by that time and signed a contract.

Jai Maharaj
jai@mantra.com
Om Shanti