Xref: utzoo news.admin:6368 news.groups:11080 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!tank!eecae!upba!dsndata!wayne From: wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups Subject: Re: Changes to Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies Message-ID: Date: 24 Jul 89 12:33:02 GMT References: <7429@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <5202@ficc.uu.net> Sender: wayne@dsndata.UUCP Organization: Design Data Lines: 46 In-reply-to: peter@ficc.uu.net's message of 22 Jul 89 23:27:52 GMT In article <5202@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) 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. gee. as if we dont have enough flame wars already, you want to start another... > 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. umm... most of the gnu.* network _is_ directed into the gnu mailing lists. i dont have any numbers, but i would assume that the mailing lists are very _large_. when you have that large of a mailing list it is more efficient to have a separate hierarchy. > I realise that, strictly speaking, gnu.* is not part of UseNet. Still, > this is not a good thing. yes, you got it. gnu.* is _not_ part of the "regular" usenet. what are you going to complain about next? that the biz.* groups are commercial? that you dont get my local groups? that you dont like the way that the people in nebraska run our ugn.* network? i dont agree with a lot of things that Richard Stallman does and says, but that is irrelevant. the gnu.* groups were set up by the FSF, for FSF uses and i think it is 100% ok for them to put whatever restrictions on their groups that they want. if they change things to the point that i dont like it (which they havent), i will just stop getting the gnu.* groups. *sigh*. -wayne