somebody wrote:
> MIT owns the hardware/software used to run this list - They can shut
> down the PICList in a minute, if they don't like what we do with it.
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jory wrote:
> i don't want to police such things, but please keep in mind the
> nature of your communication, and the nature of a public list and
> decide what is appropriate.
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That's a nice and wise position Jory.

In the United States, K-Mart sells .22 caliber cartridges at the
shelves, as well any gas station sells gasoline at will. Both can be
used to protect and serve or to destroy and cause pain.

Offffff ccccoourrrse, there is a morality thing involved, but what is
wrong is the =bad use= of the thing itself. The fact of hiding the
information doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Well, still the moral thing
to decide to avoid to show it, but, the free speech and show is
something very nice. If not, any newspaper and lots
of search sites would be closed, lots of dictionaries pages would be
ripped off. Altavista, Yahoo, Lycos and other has thousand of hyperlinks
for cracks, serial numbers, tricks, adult sites and much more crazy
things. This is the freedom thing. Now, the =use= of that information
can be discussed, not the availability of the thing. Months ago I needed
a .dll file Microsoft had only inside a huge package, I don't know how I
found only the .dll in some .uk site. Thanks to those guys.

Again, offfff ccccoouuurrsee we will not allow (in name of the free of
speech and show) post adult sites advertisements in our churches,
schools and other "high morale level" places.  The society decides what
is the "morale level" for every place.

I believe that the announce of "crack sites" in the list can benefit
some students or not fortunate ($$$) people, that otherwise would have
difficulties to find the same thing at the search engines. I am not
encouraging piracy at all. I believe that in such way it was related to
the subject of this list. It is done. The bandwidth used shows how
controversial is this subject. Let's just be aware for the future "high
tension" situations and not waste so much time over it. Lets close the
subject.

Wagner Lipnharski.
http://www.ustr.net