Package: project Version: N/A; reported 2002-05-24 Severity: wishlist In the "Mail/News" paragraph of the DMUP, nothing is said about news at all. However, a few paragraphs further down, it states the following:
Don't use Debian facilities in a manner which constitutes net abuse. Debian does not have any Usenet news servers. It may be that some of the Debian machines have access to such a news server, but their use through Debian machines is strictly forbidden. I find this unclear. I assume it means that one cannot a news server that belongs to an ISP which sponsor the internet connection to this particular machine, and which limits the usage on that server based on what the IP address of the connecting client is. This is fine by me. But what about public news servers? If my interpretation of the abuse paragraph is correct, should I assume that I am allowed to use other servers? A paragraph further down seems to strenghen this assumption: Examples of what we consider net abuse: [..] * Binary Postings to non-Binary Groups If using news is not allowed at all in the first place, then this would be redundant. So, a clarification as to whether "news is not allowed at all", or "news is fine as long as you don't use our sponsor's news server" would have been appreciated. Regards, Tore Anderson -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux lush 2.4.18-xfs-1.1 #1 Fri May 17 18:22:32 CEST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]