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From: afo@pucc-h (Flidais )
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Subject: Re: STARGATE (READ THIS!)
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Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 13:09:04 EST
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An open letter to those people who have been flaming about the
"stargate" and alleged censorship:

Exactly *what* is your problem?  Have you seen any rampant
censorship in the mod.* groups in the last few months?  Do you
really have such a twisted view of those people who are running the
net that you would possibly believe that they are capable of blatant
censorship? And where did you get the idea that posting to the net
is some sort of deity or government given right?

The people who are running the net are volunteering for it.  No one
pays them to do what they do, and what they do takes quite a bit of
time out of their day and their lives.  Yet they take the time, and
the flames, and they keep the net running.  Do you people think the
net is a perpetual motion machine?  It breaks, it has new sites coming
on the network constantly, and different news versions (did you
think everyone has the same machines, the same configurations, and
the same versions?); and yet, somehow, they manage to keep the
network working.  And, you know, the best they get out of the users
is nothing at all.  When the net works, no one says anything.  But
let some part of the net go haywire, and they get flamed. I don't
see any of the flamers volunteering to take care of the problem.

As to the censoring, well, do you really think that what you say (and
who you are) is *so* important that people will censor you outright?
Don't you think that the moderators will have better things to do
than to plot against you?  Come down off of your imagined throne.
The moderating is due to tiny little laws having to do with such
things as libel and slander suits and use of the airwaves for such
purposes.  That's so the entire net doesn't go away the first time
somebody tries to play defamation of character. Not because someone
wants to get his/her jollies out of keeping someone else off the
net. And how is you "plan" to harass them into doing what you want 
any better than what you think they'll do to you?  I think you're
being much more of a censor (do it my way, or I'll harass you into
doing my way) than they would ever be.  Why don't you be a little
more mature?

So why don't all you people who have been flaming about stargate,
and the alleged "censorship" sit back and think about how the net is
run, and all those people who run the net.  Then, when you come back
to reality, you might send a little mail thanking them....

Laurie Sefton
pucc-k!afo