[10079] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: What goes around, comes around
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Sun Feb 6 10:29:34 1994
From: karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
To: dave@oldcolo.com (Dave Hughes)
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 09:28:55 -0600 (CST)
Cc: PAUL@tdr.com, com-priv@psi.com, ethics-l@vm.gmd.de
In-Reply-To: <m0pTA8m-0008ThC@oldcolo.com> from "Dave Hughes" at Feb 6, 94 07:07:11 am
> > Wendy Wein
>
> > Clarence Thomas, systems administrator for "Redwood," the
> >administrative computer, will be temporarily suspended from his job
> >because he sent a 5,500 character religious message to between
> >1,200 to 1,500 news groups across the world through the Internet.
>
> What a henious crime!
.....
> Yep, its back to the future for sure. In case anyone didn't notice,
> Cyberspace has evolved right into the Middle Ages!
>
> Wonder how long it will take to gain electronic freedom of religio--
> er, speech.
You have it Dave.
So do I.
So does he.
AND, if he had <CROSSPOSTED> the article, nobody would have screamed.
However, he didn't do that. Instead, he posted 5.5kb to 1500 newsgroups
<one at a time>. That is, he consumed rahter more than 5.5kb -- in fact,
he consumed somewhat over 5MB, or more than 10% of one day's normal
newsflow.
We got all 1500 copies. Even over a T1, it took a bit of time. For those
paying by the hour, including some of our customers, it cost REAL money --
THEIR money.
For one person, and one message.
If he had done that from here, I would have been awfully pissed. Not for
what he said, but for the <manner> in which he said it.
Note that time, place and manner restrictions have been upheld as not in
violation of the First Ammendment as long as they're reasonable and do not
prevent the speech from taking place.
You do NOT have the right to capriciously spend someone else's connect
dollars on something like this, especially when you do so in a grossly
inefficient manner.
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