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Bret Ludwig wrote:
On Mar 26, 3:31 pm, Jenn wrote:
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Vinylanach wrote:
You can get a person kicked off of Usenet for one of the following
reasons:
-Spamming a newsgroup
-Posting personal information such as social security numbers or
credit card numbers
-Providing links to illegal pornography (heads up, Arny!)
-Making posts filled with hateful or violent content, such as racist
or anti-Semetic comments
Every racist thread, every anti-Semetic post...just report him. If
one person does it, it will probably get ignored. If everyone does,
who knows. I was once threatened by Usenet for dropping an f-bomb.
I sincerely doubt this. Who from "Usenet" has ever sent you a message?
It seems more likely that your news service provider contacted you.
AFAIK, there are no actual Usenet restrictions of this type. I could be
wrong, of course!

Since I do not advocate or condone illegal or violent acts and indeed
do not "spread hate" I am protected by the First Amendment in the US.



Something to consider, something we had a lot of trouble beating
into the head of AOL lusers back in the day; my server, my rules.
Basically the US Constitution does not apply here, if you access a group
through *my* server and I do not like what you do/say I can boot you
off. Since it is my privately owned server it's my way or the highway,
follow my Terms of Service or find another host. For some reason people
in AOL chat rooms thought that the first amendment covered their Phil
Allison like tirades. I'll reiterate that the biggest part of the battle
is getting the admin to enforce the ToS.


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