Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!bbncca!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.news.group Subject: Re: mod.all and net.fascism Message-ID: <1036@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 03:27:49 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.1036 Posted: Wed Oct 17 03:27:49 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Oct-84 00:38:36 EDT References: <3886@decwrl.UUCP> <1574@nsc.UUCP> <200@bragvax.UUCP> <371@amdahl.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 35 Net.flame is certainly the place for this... First, I agree with everything that Chuq said in reply to this message. And... Moffett really makes me gag. This guy has had literally NOTHING to say in net.motss over the past year, yet every now and then he crawls out of his bunker with a dumb comment about how the "gays" are muzzling people like him. Note, too, that when people spoke up for the positive reasons for the creation of mod.motss, he didn't bother presenting reasoned arguments against it. No, all we were treated to was an occasional self-satisfied, bilious belch. These people who complain the most about "facism" are really arguing for a return to the playpens and mudholes of their childhood, where they can throw sand, pull the girls' pigtails, play in the mud, and, being grownups now, grind their axes, all without Mom being around. If Moffett feels deprived of a newsgroup where he can rehash tired old canards about the immorality of gay people, and most importantly, not engage in dialogue with those who disagree with him (the most important thing is to say the same thing over and over again, NOT to address any points raised by others), he can take his pick, or maybe even start his own group. Why not open THAT up to net.news.group? Just as net.motss not only confounded the sceptics, but actually became one of the most intelligent, serious and well-run newsgroups on USENET in the past year (notwithstanding the past few months in the company of Arndt and Brunson), so too, it is my intention to see that this record continue with mod.motss. I hope to bring the benefits of moderation to the group, while keeping its free-wheeling style intact. -- /Steve Dyer {decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca.ARPA