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From: fritz@unocss.UUCP (Tim Russell)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Changes to Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies
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Date: 28 Jul 89 17:45:39 GMT
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mcb@ncis.tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch) writes:

>Precisely so.  I have no objection to a complete bar of politics and
>philosophy from the gnu technical groups.  But the charter as
>previously quoted doesn't say "No politics in the gnu groups"; it
>says, in effect, "No politics except OUR politics in the gnu groups",
>and that is not acceptable on a publicly subsidized network.  

  Yep.  As near as I can tell, rms's wonderful message asking people to
boycott Apple was posted AFTER this change in the A.N.H. documentation.
This to me is definitely a Bad Thing, and was the moving force behind
my angered posting.

  Gnu.misc.discuss is definitely to me a Good Thing, /as long as rms now
keeps his boycott messages out of the other gnu groups/.  If he doesn't,
we're back to square one.  The problem with carrying gnu on government
networks is not the discussion, it's the fact that rms would like the
discussion to contain HIS side only.

  I really hate this topic, because by arguing against some of rms's methods
I come out looking like I'm sympathetic to Apple, and I most emphatically
am not.  I think they've gotten /way/ too big for their britches.

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