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From: ee161aok@sdcc13.UUCP ({|stu)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Need for Stargate screening?
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Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 22:29:08 EST
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	I would be far more interested a stargate news service that is
screened.  First, there would be a much wider audience and better varied
contributors.  I would hope to see lawyers discussing points of law in a
net.legal and marine-biologists in net.marine-biology etc.

	I am interested in QUALITY discussions and VARIED discussions.
Stargate would seem to encourage this by disseminating the net to all
sorts of people through the inevitable publicity that will follow its
inauguration.

	The net as it stands is terrific for getting a termcap or
for letting people blow off steam, but it is not really as good a source
of information as I would want, and I see the screening proposed for
Stargate as only the most positive of steps.

	The net serves a small group of people who have both access to a
good sized computer, and an excess of time to wade through the overabundance
of crap that arrives on the net each day.  I would rather have a
different service than that provided by the net, and Stargate seems to
have real possibilities in that direction.

		steve ackroyd