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From: lab@qubix.UUCP (Q-Bick)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: moderated newsgroups created
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Date: Wed, 24-Oct-84 16:09:49 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 24 16:09:49 1984
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> mod.motss:
> 
> Mod.motss is a forum for the discussion of gay-related issues of interest
> to all members of USENET.  It is designed to foster discussion on a wide
> variety of topics, such as health problems, parenting, relationships,
> clearances, job security and many others.  Mod.motss is here for both
> gay and straight people, men and women.
> 
> Mod.motss is emphatically NOT a newsgroup for the discussion of whether
> homosexuality is good or bad, natural or unnatural.  Not is it a place
> where conduct unsuitable for the net will be allowed or condoned.
> These groundrules will be enforced by the moderator.

Cute. Just define the "issues" to what you want them to be.
Automatically exclude those with a different idea of what are "issues."
Censorship is now alive and real on Usenet.

The "separate but equal" idea also has merit here.
-- 
		The Ice Floe of Larry Bickford
		{amd,decwrl,sun,idi,ittvax}!qubix!lab

You can't settle the issue until you've settled how to settle the issue.