Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site oliveb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!oliveb!toml From: toml@oliveb.UUCP (Dave Long) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.news.group Subject: Re: mod.all and net.fascism Message-ID: <195@oliveb.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 22:15:36 EDT Article-I.D.: oliveb.195 Posted: Thu Oct 18 22:15:36 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 22-Oct-84 02:34:22 EDT References: <3886@decwrl.UUCP> <1574@nsc.UUCP> <200@bragvax.UUCP> <371@amdahl.UUCP>Reply-To: toml@oliveb.UUCP (Dave Long) Organization: D&L U., Thaumaturgy Lines: 19 Xref: 6224 2002 Summary: TTIHLIC & Does it really matter, anyway? [WORST CASE ASSUMPTION] Does it really matter if the mod.* groups are fascist? Everbody still has the good old anarchistic net.* groups. It seems to me like people are just crying because they don't get to insult people anywhere they want. If you want to generally be a pest, it is easy enough to do so in the net.* groups. [MY VIEW OF REALITY] Actually, I think that the administrators are just there to cut down on the volume of messages, rather than practicing outright censorship. Also, anyone who feels that they are being censored in a mod.* group can always post to the same net.* group. There is no such thing as total freedom of speech. You could always shout "Fire" in a theater, but that would not be the proper thing to do. ---------- I just hope no one reads the documentation and finds out how to post directly to mod.all groups. -- -- Dave Long -- {fortune,idi,ios,hplabs,tymix}!oliveb!toml {allegra,ihnp4,msoft,tty3b,uvacs}!oliveb!toml