X-Added: With Flames (bblib $Revision: 1.4 $) Return-path: X-Andrew-Authenticated-as: 13979;andrew.cmu.edu;Adam Glass Received: from backwater.bh.andrew.cmu.edu via trymail for bb+graffiti.bboard-censorship@andrew.cmu.edu ID ; Thu, 3 Nov 1994 18:18:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from backwater.bh.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Thu, 3 Nov 1994 18:18:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from mms.4.60.Nov..4.1993.10.47.32.pmax.ul4.EzMail.2.0.CUILIB.3.45.SNAP.NOT.LINKED.backwater.bh.andrew.cmu.edu.pmax.ul4 via MS.5.6.backwater.bh.andrew.cmu.edu.pmax_ul4; Thu, 3 Nov 1994 18:18:24 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 18:18:24 -0500 (EST) From: Adam Glass X-Andrew-Message-Size: 2745+0 Content-Type: X-BE2; 12 If-Type-Unsupported: alter To: Bulletin Board Administration Subject: Fwd: Sexually Explicit Bboards Cc: \begindata{text, 1681244403} \textdsversion{12} \template{messages} Here's the original message... ---------- Forwarded message begins here ---------- Approved: BBoard.Maintainer@andrew.cmu.edu X-Added: With Flames (restrictbb $Revision: 1.47 $) Return-path: X-Andrew-Authenticated-as: 12605;andrew.cmu.edu;Robert Joseph Kuszewski Received: from leda.cc.cmu.edu via trymail for restrictbb+official.computing-news@andrew.cmu.edu ID ; Thu, 3 Nov 1994 12:01:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from leda.cc.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Thu, 3 Nov 1994 12:01:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from Messages.8.5.N.CUILIB.3.45.SNAP.NOT.LINKED.leda.cc.cmu.edu.HP9000.715 via MS.5.6.leda.cc.cmu.edu.hp700_ux90; Thu, 3 Nov 1994 12:00:59 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <0iiFR=200iWG0Axds0@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 12:00:59 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Joseph Kuszewski X-Andrew-Message-Size: 1574+0 Reply-To: advisor+@andrew.cmu.edu To: RBBs Subject: Sexually Explicit Bboards During the next few days, the university will be withdrawing some netnews bulletin board subscriptions from the public computer systems. This action is in response to a new university policy which is outlined below. The university's policy is to carry a very wide range of bulletin boards for the community, with no monitoring of the bulletin board contents. However, Pennsylvania laws prohibits us from carrying bulletin boards that are known to be used for the distribution of sexually explicit or obscene material. It is against the law for anybody to knowingly distribute sexually explicit materials to people under the age of 18, or obscene materials to people of any age. Issues of free speech are always important to a university. Therefore, the only criterion that will be used when considering the withdrawal of a bulletin board is that either the intended purpose for which it was established or its primary use (majority of the posts) makes it illegal for Computing Services to provide access to the bulletin board. Because the university does not monitor the contents of bulletin boards, there is always the chance that sexually explicit or obscene material may be posted and available. Any reported incidents of such materials will be handled on a case by case basis. Computing Services will implement this policy on Tuesday, November 8th by removing the following bulletin board trees: alt.binaries.pictures.erotica alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.* alt.binaries.pictures.tasteless alt.sex alt.sex.* rec.arts.erotica Bob Kuszewski Computing Services \enddata{text, 1681244403}