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From: rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (Robert Halloran)
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Subject: Re: misc.headlines.unitex moderator RESIGNS
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Date: 22 Nov 89 19:21:17 GMT
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In article <548@panix.UUCP> gcf@panix.UUCP (Gordon Fitch) writes:
> (prior arguments deleted).....

>In summary:
>
>1.  Anti-Unitex people militated against its creation, saying it
>would be propaganda because in came from the U.N.

	I refer you to Brad Templeton's article in this group 
	about the volume of traffic in the group vs. the number
	of people actually reading it.  That argument was MY
	reasoning behind voting against it.  I frankly couldn't
	give a damn where the stuff was coming from, I just
	didn't see the point in tying up our modems to bring it in
	if no one was interested in it.

>2.  It was voted in anyway.
>
>3.  At the first opportunity, an anti-Unitex person destroyed it,
>before another moderator could be found.

	I refer you to Chuq von Rospach's article on Patt's
	specific disagreements with Mr. Waldron of Unitex
	regarding posting of fundraising requests, which go
	against the policies of many of the Internet entities.
	Chuq's argument that any replacement for Patt would
	immediately find themselves in the same position of
	having to argue Internet policy to Unitex led 
	to Patt (not The Great Net Gods Cabal (tm)) agreeing 
	that the group should be removed.

>Who's being political?  Who's playing power games?

	Damfino.  To look at Chuq's article, the attitude
	at Unitex was "We can do what we want, because
	we're the UN".  After all the grief about starting
	the group to begin with, I hardly think Patt would
	have left it hanging without good cause, do you?

>*   Gordon Fitch || gcf@panix | uunet!hombre!mydog!gcf   *


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