Xref: utzoo news.admin:6347 news.groups:11057 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!mcvax!kth!sunic!enea!sommar From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups Subject: Re: Changes to Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies Message-ID: <133@enea.se> Date: 23 Jul 89 10:13:32 GMT Organization: Enea Data AB, Sweden Lines: 20 Peter da Silva (peter@ficc.uu.net) writes: )) operating system with freely redistributable source code. The GNU )) ! Project is led by Richard Stallman. Note that use of these groups to )) ! discuss topics considered contrary to GNU aims and political )) ! philosophy are considered off-limits (e.g., porting of GNU code to )) ! Apple machines, usefulness of intellectual property laws). ) )OK, everyone who didn't like sci.skeptic... have at it. This is rather )heavy-handed censorship. If Stallman wants a playpen, I think he should )use the existing mechanisms: i.e., moderation or mailing lists. Maybe that is how GNU people are. See my signature. The guy who said it posted a quite brute parody of the GNU manifesto to eunet.general, and that was his comments to the flames he got. I was one the few to appreciate it. He told that he tried to post it to some GNU group, but that the moderator refused the article. -- Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se "Apparently being a gnu adept and having a good sense of humor are disjunct qualities." - Mart van Stiphout