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- From: demon@desire.wright.edu (Not a Boomer)
- Newsgroups: alt.activism
- Subject: Re: Call For Discussion - unmoderating misc.activism.progressive
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.152141.6733@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 15:21:41 EST
- References: <1993Jan22.022307.27241@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
- Followup-To: alt.activism.d
- Organization: ACME Products
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- In article <1993Jan22.022307.27241@mont.cs.missouri.edu>, oracle!us.oracle.com!mfriedma@uunet.UU.NET (Michael Friedman) writes:
- > I think the recent flap over MIM and misc.activism.progressive clearly
- > demonstrates that misc.activism.progressive has become exactly what we
- > were told it would not be - a megaphone for Harel to promulgate views
- > he agrees with while muffling those he disagrees with.
- >
- > I feel very strongly that this is contrary to the basic spirit of
- > Usenet - free, unfettered debate.
- >
- > Therefore, I think that misc.activism.progressive should be
- > unmoderated.
- >
- > Comments, please?
-
- Go for it. Of course you'll need to find 2000 yes votes to counter-act
- the 700 canned votes mustered from ACTIV-L and associated lists where people
- know nothing of Usenet.
-
- Brett
- ________________________________________________________________________________
- "There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an
- intellectual conviction." Sean O'Casey in _The White Plague_ by Frank Herbert.
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