Hear Hear, I agree! dave boyd
On Fri, 1 Mar 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > Someone asked me this in personal mail, and I thought it might bear > repeating here: > > > Somehow the juxtaposition of your message body and the first line of > > your .sig (a campaigner against censorship) struck me as ironic. > > It isn't really. I'm not censoring his message, I'm denying him my > "publication" (the debian-user mailing list) as a forum for it. He is > free to post to the appropriate forum, and won't get any interference > from me. > > As publisher, I make the editorial rule that there are not to be > off-topic messages or advertising that isn't paid for. There is real > expense in distributing a list with 700 subscribers like debian-user. > I'm not obligated to spend my own money to publish every message that > is presented to my list server. However, I am ethically bound to defend > whats-his-name if the government decides that he shouldn't be making > that same posting to _any_ forum on the net. > > Thanks > > Bruce > -- > Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A campaigner for Clinton and against > Censorship. > Toy Story: $183M and counting. At $184M it will beat the #1 movie of 1995. >
