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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
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Posted: Thu Nov  7 10:00:30 1985
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Reply-To: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech
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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
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