Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!bch From: bch@ecsvax.UUCP (Byron C. Howes) Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.stargate,net.followup Subject: Re: STARGATE (READ THIS!) Message-ID: <511@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 11:24:18 EST Article-I.D.: ecsvax.511 Posted: Thu Jan 17 11:24:18 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jan-85 10:31:49 EST References: <504@vortex.UUCP> <510@ecsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: bch@ecsvax.UUCP (Byron C. Howes) Organization: N C Educational Computing Service Lines: 33 Xref: watmath net.news:2990 net.news.stargate:35 net.followup:4352 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 ...!{decvax,akgua}!mcnc!ecsvax!bch