At 12:26 30-08-96 +0000, you wrote:
 
>Finally, I find, in general,  AMERICAN  listowners to be too liberal
>to abusers of such a kind.  Those .com sources are the ones  who'll,
>in  the  future,  make the academic world PAY for their megalomaniac
>network abuses.
 
Well, as a Dutch listowner I ought to know something about tolerance. The
way my country is getting headlines concerning drug tolerance and lately
even childporn tolerance is not doing a great job for my chauvinism.
My domain kun.nl could be seen as an American .EDU domain, yet I am
webmaster for a certain company and in another mailer I have a .sig
containing that URL. I usually write a .sig so I don't have to write it
every time I write a mail, I write it once, and it gets appended to the end
of every mail. Great invention.
What I mean is when I write a mail I am not consciously sending that .sig.
If I'd send to your list I'd be abusing in your eyes, you'd warn me, I'd
apologise, a month later the same would happen. You will not change that on
your own.
 
Unless a person writes something very interesting on my list I don't bother
to check their URL in their .sig, and if it's a FOR FREE SOFTWARE CHECK
http://... it gets ignored completely.
 
>Those who commented my poster  objected  to "netiquette" but did not
>read, in the text, the threat to academic list owners.  PERHAPS,  it
>is high time to have a forum for european list managers.
 
Well if your action would be the action of an academic list owner in
general, I'd rather not be associated with that group.
 
Grab a beer and relax for a couple of days, works for me.
 
And no, Dutch DON'T tolerate child porn ANYWHERE.
 
Note: my personal Hfl 0,02. I am not representing European listowners or
Dutch ppl in any way.
 
Michel
 
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