Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcc13.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcc3!sdcc13!ee161aok From: ee161aok@sdcc13.UUCP ({|stu) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Need for Stargate screening? Message-ID: <125@sdcc13.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 22:29:08 EST Article-I.D.: sdcc13.125 Posted: Tue Jan 8 22:29:08 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 23:28:29 EST References: <1917@sun.uucp> <498@vortex.UUCP> Reply-To: ee161aok@sdcc13.UUCP ({|stu}) Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center Lines: 23 Summary: 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