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From: maslak@unix.SRI.COM (Valerie Maslak)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Soc.feminism
Message-ID: <5973@unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 22 Nov 89 00:34:36 GMT
References: <21323@usc.edu> <10657@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Reply-To: maslak@unix.UUCP (Valerie Maslak)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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In article <10657@thorin.cs.unc.edu> oliver@unc.cs.unc.edu (Bill Oliver) writes:
>In article <21323@usc.edu> gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit) writes:
>[He doesn't like it that something he posted was rejected]
>
>You really have no cause for complaint.  The bottom line is that
>a moderated news group is a censored group, and the moderators
>censor as to their whim.  That whim may or may not be accurately
>described in the group's charter -- it doesn't matter as long as
>the moderator believes that he or she is doing the right thing.

 Precisely because of the likelihood that the moderators would be
accused of censorhip on political or philosophical grounds, ALL
articles to soc.feminism are archived, whether they are actually
approved by a moderator for posting or not. The moderators of
soc.feminism have bent over backwards to be fair and impartial.

Valerie Maslak