From: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 10:22:32 +0800
To: Ryan Lackey <rdl@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: (eternity) autonomous agents
In-Reply-To: <199801131244.HAA22857@the-great-machine.mit.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.980114113810.148F-100000@shirley>
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On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Ryan Lackey wrote:

> I believe the web or the internet as a whole
> are now large and important enough to Joe Sixpack that shutting them off
> to stop illegal activity is infeasible -- I do not agree that USENET
> is.  I think 2 weeks of press in the US about "USENET, the network used
> by kiddie porn photographers to trade photos, must be shut down" would be
> enough to shut usenet in the US down.

I beleave that this is quite unlikely.  Usenet is infact bigger then the
internet as a whole.  Shutting down usenet would be a difficalt task,  how
are you going to convinvince all thouse peaple who like usenet to give it
up.  In fact how are you going to convinve copernise like zippo and
altoba who are dedcated to providing usenet connectiverty to give up there
primery money sorce.

- -- 
Please excuse my spelling as I suffer from agraphia see the url in my header. 
Never trust a country with more peaple then sheep.  ex-net.scum and proud
You Say To People "Throw Off Your Chains" And They Make New Chains For
Themselves? --Terry Pratchett.

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