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From: lat@stcvax.UUCP (Larry Tepper)
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Subject: Re: WARNING
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Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 13:39:54 EST
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Frank writes...
> ....  You won't be able to
> protest a bounced message, because the moderator is the only
> person  with  a right to relay your message to the STARGATE.
> If your article is bounced or edited beyond recognition  you
> won't  be able to defend yourself - how are you going to get
> a message past the moderator?  In short,  you  can  call  it
> moderation, but it's still a euphemism for censorship.

The current Usenet phone network will still be around for mail
transmission.  You could send mail to root at 100's of other sites
or to other moderators with your protest.

As an experiment, Stargate will begin with some subset of the
"technical" groups.  I don't see moderated groups as a problem
there.  If Stargate ever gets to be a real thing, it might be
good to set up some "official" channel via Usenet to let other
sites know you have a protest.  Again, though, I don't see much
problem with a moderated unix-wizards or lang.c, for instance.
-- 
It's getting lonely around here...
{ihnp4 hao ucbvax!nbires}!stcvax!lat			Larry Tepper
Storage Technology, MD-3T, Louisville, CO 80028		+1 303 673 5435