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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: comp.lang.cobol
Message-ID: <256EE872.64FA@rpi.edu>
Date: 25 Nov 89 19:30:57 GMT
References: <2093@compugen.>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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In <2093@compugen.> john@compugen. (John Beaudin) writes:
John> IMHO, restricting news group existence to those with snob appeal
John> is just another kind of book burning.

That's quite a lofty humble opinion you're toting around with you.
Forgetting "to those with snob appeal" for a moment, since that was
not really the motivation behind hideous book burning attrocities,
just how is not creating a newsgroup as evil as burning of books[1]?
Of the people who have spoken out against COBOL, I have not seen
anyone of them say, "It can't be discussed at all!"

John> I want comp.lang.cobol to exist and flourish.

Fine.  I probably won't end of voting either way, unless you decide to
continue with these Third Reich accusations.

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[1] If I burn my copy of Catcher in the Rye, it's my own business.
There are plenty to go around in the world.  The attrocities I speak
of were the forceful entry into private homes to obtain books to burn,
and the burning of public books, which was an attempt at censorship of
the thoughts of the entire populace.

Dave
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