Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site stcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!stcvax!lat From: lat@stcvax.UUCP (Larry Tepper) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news Subject: Re: WARNING Message-ID: <363@stcvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 13:39:54 EST Article-I.D.: stcvax.363 Posted: Fri Jan 18 13:39:54 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 01:14:19 EST References: <387@hercules.UUCP> Organization: Storage Technology Corp. Louisville, CO Lines: 23 Xref: watmath net.followup:4361 net.news:3009 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