Xref: utzoo news.admin:6404 gnu.misc.discuss:33 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!rpi!rpi.edu!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: news.admin,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Changes to Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies Message-ID: Date: 27 Jul 89 22:55:24 GMT References: <323@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> <8427@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <325@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: tale@pawl.rpi.edu Lines: 23 In-reply-to: mcb@ncis.tis.llnl.gov's message of 27 Jul 89 21:25:25 GMT In <325@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> mcb@ncis.tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch) writes: MCB> Precisely so. I have no objection to a complete bar of politics and MCB> philosophy from the gnu technical groups. But the charter as MCB> previously quoted doesn't say "No politics in the gnu groups"; it MCB> says, in effect, "No politics except OUR politics in the gnu groups", MCB> and that is not acceptable on a publicly subsidized network. This has got be at least the fifth statement I have seen to this effect and it is completely wrong. I have reread the charter for gnu.misc.discuss a few times to see if perhaps I was missing something in it but I still do not see where it says anywhere, implicitly or explicitly, that only the viewpoints of the FSF will be tolerated in gnu.misc.discuss. Now if by "OUR politics" you mean literally "politics relating to the FSF either pro or con" rather than just "politics which support GNU", then I don't see what your problem is. Of course those are the only politics that should be discussed there -- why should gnu control, for example, be discussed in a group about GNU software? Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))