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From: jeff@aiai.uucp (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Changes to Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies
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Date: 28 Jul 89 18:02:50 GMT
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In article <4439@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) writes:
>>... 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.

Well, I have certainly seen a discussion of GNU newsgroup "censorship"
before, probably on info-gcc.  There were the very same questions
about whether FSF could restrict discussion given who paid for Usenet
and the Internet, etc.  Some details have changed, but that's about
it.

The only interesting difference is that the discussion is now in
gnu.misc.discuss, which looks like it might be the right place for
discussions of this sort (while it should be clear that the technical
groups are not).

-- Jeff