Word: newsgroup
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Dates: during 1994-1994
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...central issues are the accountability of newsgroup users and the legitimacy of the Internet as a forum for discussion. While most corporations recognize that e-mail authors should be held accountable for their transmissions (Harvard's reprimand of "e-mail stalkers" is an example), there is less agreement on the level of accountability for newsgroup users...
...characters in a novel commit suicide, make death threats or claim that the world will end tomorrow, their authors aren't punished. The storylines may be distasteful, but they aren't criminal. If all newsgroup users were held accountable for their words, millions of people all over the world would be arrested, convicted and shot by their governments...
Students and professors have charged that the newspaper is technologically illiterate. As such, it should leave discussion of computer issues to other, more appropriate forums, like the "Harvard general" newsgroup on the Internet...
...completely satisfied with the performance of fas," Steen wrote in a post on the newsgroup "harvard general...
HASCS has also constructed a new news service which Steen called "our highest priority." The server, which Steen hopes will improve the quality of newsgroup service, is in the final testing stage and should be up next week...