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From: bch@ecsvax.UUCP (Byron C. Howes)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.stargate,net.followup
Subject: Re: STARGATE (READ THIS!)
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Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 11:24:18 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 17 11:24:18 1985
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Summary: 

If there's any crime here, or any abridgement of rights, it is in the
possibility that the STARGATE project will be dropped or delayed because
some loony tune regurgitates his paranoid fantasies into every newsgroup
he can think of.  There is a serious abuse of usenet *privileges* (NOT
rights) here that ought to be dealt with in some manner.  Site admini-
strators, like it or not, have the right to decide how they will spend
resources.  There can be no guarantee that usenet will exist next week,
much less any legal way to enforce its continued existence.

We should, however, have expected something like this.  As has been
demonstrated time and again in many newsgroups, when you get a group
of people together that is as large as the usenet readership you are
bound to have a few people that are simply off the wall.  Most of the
time they are ignored or cause mild irritation and a bit of flaming.
It's simply silly to let one of these folks have any influence on the
future of the net.

Lauren, you know you have lots of support on usenet.  There's no need
to shoulder this all by yourself and no point in threatening to drop
out of the project because of one person's hysteria.  I'm sure that
I am not the only one who would like to help this project get off
the ground (pun intended) and would happily take some hassling by
crazies if it could insure the STARGATE project's success.

I would like to know who this powerful group of usenet administrators
is and where they are getting the money to "fund" the STARGATE project.
We haven't gotten a bill from Usenet, Inc. yet nor have any CIA types
appeared at my door to demand I censor incoming news. :-)
-- 

                                              Byron Howes
					System Manager -- NCECS
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