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From: jpn@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: As long as we are taliking about rmgrouping ...
Message-ID: <1587@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 09:38:59 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  5 09:38:59 1985
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Reply-To: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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>>> The problem with mod.anything has always been that the moderator
>>> 'evaluates' the posting.   ...
>>> 
>>> What happened to 'the free interchange of ideas'.  
>>
>>These arguemnts just do not hold water for the sources groups.
>>The source groups are by definition, not discussion groups ...
>
>Someone posted bgrep.  A few days later someone posted bm, a better
>implementation of the same algorithm.
>
>Isn't that an interchange of ideas?

I would just like to point out that both bgrep and bm were posted to
MOD.sources.  Therefore it is obvious that moderation of a sources
newsgroup does NOT preclude the kind of interaction discussed!!!!


John P. Nelson, Moderator, mod.sources
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