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From: wjt@hound.UUCP (Bill Taggart)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.stargate
Subject: Re: STARGATE (READ THIS!)
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Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 13:01:20 EST
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Because of Frank Adrian's diatribe posted to too many newsgroups,
I decided to resubscribe to net.news and read all the back articles
on stargate that were still available.

I don't want get into a debate about censorship and whether the moderation
of all the newsitems forwarded through stargate constitutes censorship.
However, I am very concerned about Mr. Adrian's suggestion that stargate
should be stopped at all costs.  I wonder what he will advocate if his
harassment tactics fail.  I hope that other usenet readers will not take
his maniacal ravings seriously and realize that his latest posting is just
a means of venting his frustration.

Personally, I support the stargate experiment and hope that is does
provide telecommunications cost savings.  Although I am not familiar
with exactly what type of mechanized (software) moderation is being
proposed, I support anything that will clean up a lot of the
shotgun postings and the propensity of too many individuals to provide
verbatim quotes of 150 line articles when they only have 5 lines of
comments.

During the past five months that I have been on usenet I have found it
to be an extremely useful source of information, both in my business
and personal life.  However, I have found it necessary to unsubscribe
from an increasing number of groups because of the overwhelming amount
of material.  Unfortunately, most of that material is redundant.  If
something can be done to clean up the multiple postings and tendancy
to over-quote than I will happily resubscribe to other news groups.

I think those individuals who have spent countless hours in selfless
support of usenet and stargate deserve our thanks and our support.


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             Bill Taggart
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