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From: franka@hercules.UUCP (Frank Adrian)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Need for Stargate screening?
Message-ID: <366@hercules.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 11:11:32 EST
Article-I.D.: hercules.366
Posted: Tue Jan  8 11:11:32 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 08:15:09 EST
References: <494@vortex.UUCP> <1917@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: franka@hercules.UUCP (Frank Adrian)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Summary: 

In article <1917@sun.uucp> gnu@sun.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>
>I certainly appreciate the technical and liason work you're doing, but
>I really dislike your efforts to tie it to "forced moderation".  Please
>let the net decide what it wants to send over this medium.  If the
>case for forced moderation is good enough, it will stand on its own
>merits.
>
	Hear, hear! I don't like to disagree with Lauren, but I think he's
missed the boat on this one. One of the reasons that USENET is USEful (sorry)
is the fact that it is an open channel. If Lauren is so concerned about his
node getting sued for something, he better get off the net right now. The
last time I checked, most of the traffic is unmoderated. What's the difference
in the medium, Lauren? Or does this simply seem to be a good time to put
controls on? If some person out there is going to misuse the net so egregiously
that one can be sued, why haven't they done so yet? Again, how does the change
in medium effect the legality of postings and if the net is unmoderated now,
why not unmoderated over the stellite link? I really would like an answer to
this (thanks alot).
				Same as it ever was...
				Frank Adrian