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- Path: sparky!uunet!sci34hub!gary
- From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Subject: Re: A R G I C allows itself far too much
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.010752.24194@sci34hub.sci.com>
- Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
- References: <1992Dec24.132250.12357@refrig.dixie.com> <BzxMJI.LG4@mtholyoke.edu> <1992Dec29.134900.22459@refrig.dixie.com> <8234@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 01:07:52 GMT
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- In article <8234@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- |In article <1992Dec29.134900.22459@refrig.dixie.com> todd@refrig.dixie.com (Todd H.) writes:
- |>I disagree. Uunet is a business, and can do anything it wants to. The
- |>communication links they carry aren't regulated by the government, so far as
- |>I know, and they aren't a public utility, so they're free to cut off anyone
- |>that they want.
- |
- |Actually, uunet is trying to establish itself as a common carrier. This does
- |Good Things for all of Usenet, like removing individual sites' liability for
- |transporting messages with illegal content. Unfortunately, it also means that
- |they cannot refuse to carry traffic for any given customer.
-
- Interesting. I thought a common carrier was not only allowed, but
- pretty much required, to cut off someone engaging in harassment.
-
- Or is that something coming under the head of a "tariff"?
-
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- --
- Gary Heston SCI Systems, Inc. gary@sci34hub.sci.com site admin
- The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
- "Data sheet: HSN-3000 Nuclear Event Detector. The [NED] senses the gamma
- radiation pulse [from a] nuclear weapon." As if we wouldn't notice...
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