Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site gatech.CSNET Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gatech!spaf From: spaf@gatech.CSNET (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.sources Subject: Re: As long as we are taliking about rmgrouping ... Message-ID: <1895@gatech.CSNET> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 10:00:30 EST Article-I.D.: gatech.1895 Posted: Thu Nov 7 10:00:30 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 07:46:36 EST References: <245@mit-eddie.UUCP> <136@vcvax1.UUCP> <687@ucsfcgl.UUCP> <683@ecsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech Lines: 18 Xref: watmath net.news.group:4341 net.sources:3822 In article <683@ecsvax.UUCP> mjg@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael Gingell) writes: >I think removing net.sources is (almost) the dumbest thing I >ever heard. It contains far more interesting stuff than the >censored - oops moderated source newsgroup. Personally I would >never trade reading a censored newspaper for a one published >without restriction. As someone who believes moderated groups to be one of the only ways the net can survive, I must ask Michael (and others with the same point of view): What newspapers do you read which have no editors? Why do people confuse moderation with censorship? Are the concepts really that difficult to grasp? -- Gene "wedding done, thesis to go" Spafford The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ Relay.CS.NET uucp: ...!{akgua,decvax,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!spaf