Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!rutgers!mit-eddie!snorkelwacker!apple!genbank!ames!zodiac!deimos!charleen From: charleen@deimos.ADS.COM (Charleen Bunjiovianna) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: misc.headlines.unitex moderator RESIGNS Message-ID: <9813@zodiac.ADS.COM> Date: 17 Nov 89 00:14:36 GMT References: <3708@ccnysci.UUCP> <2388@stl.stc.co.uk> <9739@zodiac.ADS.COM> <5408@cps3xx.UUCP> Sender: news@zodiac.ADS.COM Reply-To: charleen@ads.com (Charleen Bunjiovianna) Organization: Estrogen-Crazed Lust Bunnies Lines: 40 In article <5408@cps3xx.UUCP> gcf@frith.UUCP (Gordon Fitch) writes: >)In article <2388@stl.stc.co.uk> "David Wright" writes: >)> >)>So how about it? Should we really let this news group die? > >charleen@ads.com (Charleen Bunjiovianna) writes: >)Yes. It should never have been created. Opponents of the creation of >)misc.headlines.unitex feared that it would be a political tool, and as >)Patt has so amply demonstrated by her resignation as moderator, that's >)exactly what it is. > >I don't understand the proof here. Actually, I don't understand >the one of the definitions: "political tool." Can someone >explain? And how that connects with Patt's resignation, etc. Sorry, I don't have articles handy, so there is no "proof." My none-too-perfect memory seems to recall, though, that some of the people who voted NO on misc.headlines.unitex were concerned that the net would be distributing UN propaganda. I certainly thought that some UNITEX articles were deliberately slanted. How does this tie in with Patt's resignation? Did she not resign because she was pressured by the powers-that-be to publish certain kinds of articles? Did she not attempt a political power play of her own by declaring the newsgroup dead simply because she was stepping down as moderator? I don't recall any discussion over installing another moderator, just her startling announcement that she was picking up her toys and going home. Charleen "I have two very rare photographs: one is a picture of Houdini locking his keys in his car; the other is a rare photograph of Norman Rockwell beating up a child." -- Steven Wright