Subject: Online "rights" From: loundy@lightside.com (Mark Loundy) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 21:41:04 -0800

Vigdor,

There may be great irony in your being shut out of a library discussion
group, but you don't seem to recognize that E-mail discussion lists are,
for the most part, private. You have no First Amendment rights within them.

The sponsors of those lists have dictatorial powers which may be
distasteful in many circles but are nonetheless legal.

Civil libertarian groups can do no more than cluck sympathetically for you.

This message, for example, is off-topic for this list and I apologize in
advance for it.

                                          Telecommunications Chair, NPPA
Mark Loundy, Southern California          http://sunsite.unc.edu/nppa/
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