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From: lawrence@encore.UUCP (Scott Lawrence)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Net censorship
Message-ID: <263@encore.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 14:15:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 11 14:15:00 1985
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Reply-To: lawrence@encore.UUCP (Scott Lawrence)
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Organization: Encore Computer Corp., Wellesley Hills, MA
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Keywords: censorship
Summary: 


In response to the recent posting calling for an end to all censorship on the
net in general, and the mod.computers.ibm-pc group in particular - I
disagree.

Moderated groups provide a great service to readers by filtering a lot of
noise and repetition, but in doing so the moderator is taking on some
responsiblity for the material which _is_ distributed.  We should not ask
moderators to take any responsiblity which they are not comfortable with.
If the guidelines for a group are clearly and publicly stated ( as is
normally the case ), and you feel that some subject you wish to see covered
is being neglected - start a mailing list to cover it.  No one is regulating
mailing lists, and there are plenty of un-moderated groups in which to
announce its existance and stimulate participation.
-- 

    Scott Lawrence
    UUCP: {decvax,allegra,linus,ihnp4}!encore!lawrence