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Fri Dec 25 19:31:06 1981
comments on comments on proposed USENET policy
We are making no attempt to mandate what people can say on USENET,
e.g. censorship. What we are doing is supporting the rights of the
guy who pays the bills to decide "I only want `business stuff' on my
machine" or "I don't want offensive stuff since I'm worried about
AA/EEO suits". If two or more sites want to get together and create
other classes of groups which do NOT begin with USENET sanctioned class
names, and want to make sure they don't transmit such classes to other
unsuspecting machines, they can set their own standards. Note that
net.jokes.q and net.jokes.limericks would have to be moved to such
classes, according to the proposed policy.
As to the formation of the committtee, I don't have any real procedure
for selection of the committee in mind, and if anyone does let's hear
it. Requirements for being on the committee probably should include
(1) logging in fairly often, since fast response to a proposed new
newsgroup would be nice, and (2) familiarity with the existing newsgroups,
conventions, and hopefully some idea of what's on the ARPANET, so
that if a new newsgroup is proposed which already exists elsewhere,
or with a dumb name, the committee member can propose a more reasonable
solution. We could make the selection procedure as formal or as informal
as the users want.
Mark Horton
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