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From: ag5@pucc-i (Dish of the Day)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: mod.all and net.fascism
Message-ID: <725@pucc-i>
Date: Fri, 26-Oct-84 04:27:36 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 26 04:27:36 1984
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Keywords: mod, censorship

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	klipper!biep states that perhaps there should be net..only,
and that persons posting to those groups are stating  that
they "belong" to the  group...  ("How many people would be posting to
net.motss.only then?")  

	This defeats the purpose of {mod|net}.motss.  You see, we (the
gay community) *don't* seek to keep non-gays from posting to the news-
group (example:  oliven!rap isn't gay, but he does support gay rights..)

	The idea behind mod.motss seems to be to keep discussions which
require a defense of homosexuality out...  That wasn't the purpose of the
net.motss (although it does seem to be the primary activity there now.)  
I have to defend that which I was given to live with everyday; I don't
want to have to defend it in a group where we are *supposed* to be
discussing gay issues..  Gays who recognize the fact that they're gay
have accepted the fact that "Gay is OK.."    In many cases this has taken a *lot* of
doing...  they don't want to go through all that sort of stuff again
for the benefit of the rest of the world; all that is wanted is a
discussion of *issues* which affect gays.  Whether homosexuality is
moral/immoral, correct/incorrect, etc. simply *isn't* an issue.
As a result, we don't want to discuss non-issues.

	I hope this makes sense.  I think that it does..

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