Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!cord!hudson!ihnp1!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:afo From: afo@pucc-h (Flidais ) Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.stargate,net.followup Subject: Re: STARGATE (READ THIS!) Message-ID: <1687@pucc-h> Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 13:09:04 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-h.1687 Posted: Fri Jan 18 13:09:04 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jan-85 10:41:38 EST References: <504@vortex.UUCP> Organization: Time in a bottle Lines: 45 Xref: watmath net.news:2991 net.news.stargate:37 net.followup:4353 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