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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Changes to Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies
Message-ID: <4439@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 27 Jul 89 15:25:58 GMT
References: <12348@altos86.Altos.COM>
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From article <12348@altos86.Altos.COM>, by dtynan@altos86.Altos.COM (Dermot Tynan):

>...  The main
>reason RMS doesn't want certain discussions in GNU.*, is because of the
>very, very low SNR (this article is no exception), and very very high
>bandwidth.

If that is really the motive, all political discussions should be
off-limits, whether or not they are "contrary to GNU aims and political
philosophy".

>... We've been through this discussion a thousand times, in a
>hundred different newsgroups.

I don't believe there is any truth to this.  The subject was
"Appropriatness of "gnu.*" for private advocacy".  I have not
seen it discussed previously, even once.

>...  Is it any wonder that RMS is opposed to
>political or non-technical discussion?  Give it a rest!!

If the intent is really only to prohibit these sorts of discussions, the
statement in "Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies" is inappropriately
worded and ought to be changed.

			Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu