Fri, 27 Mar 1992 16:51:57 +0100
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It is irrelevant whether the message in question violates acceptable
network policy (or rather, it would only make the poster's case worse if
it did). The list you are running is a subset of the private computing
resources of your (or some other) university which said university has
not agreed to make available through any generic agreement with CREN,
EARN, or whatever. That is, unlike the forwarding of RSCS files which is
a sine qua non condition for joining CREN, it is up to your university to
decide whether to make these resources available to the list at all and
how they should be used in the best interest of the university. You have
been appointed list owner by the staff of said university and it is thus
your responsibility to decide whether a particular category of messages
is appropriate for the list. If the subscribers do not like it, they are
free to leave, or to use "better" forums such as usenet to argue about
the relationship between the first amendment and electronic forums.
Personally, if I had been accused of racism after reminding a subscriber
that one of his postings violated the guidelines for my list, I would
consider sending a copy of the whole exchange to his system administrator
(depending on how it happened). Some people are apparently out here for
the sole purpose of disrupting mailing lists which used to work just
fine, and there is no reason to put up with them.
Eric
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