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- From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
- Subject: Re: A R G I C allows itself far too much
- Message-ID: <Bzxrs9.Bq1@unix.amherst.edu>
- Organization: Elitist Usenet Administrators, Stuff and Nonsense Division
- References: <1992Dec24.132250.12357@refrig.dixie.com> <BzxMJI.LG4@mtholyoke.edu> <root.725487038@maui>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 21:02:33 GMT
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- In article <root.725487038@maui> kbibb@maui.qualcomm.com (Ken Bibb) writes:
-
- >In <BzxMJI.LG4@mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
- >
- >>That would be "uunet". The person behind the Argyc program is probably
- >>a paying customer of Uunet Corp., so there's nothing that can be done
- >>about it that way. Uunet /can't/ refuse service based on content...
- >
- >But can it refuse service because a *human* isn't behind the posts?
-
- Who can prove that? I don't believe it's true. I'd lay money that
- Argic's choice of messages to follow up is motivated by a similar kind
- of pattern-scanning mechanism to Kibo's (i.e. find /usr/spool/news
- -exec grep -i turk) but I think that someone actually attempts to
- write at least some of the prose.
-
- But besides that, why should it? UUNET's job is to funnel news to and
- from paying customers. Why should it decline that service from
- anatolia just because someone's put an automaton behind it?
-
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