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From: rissa@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Patricia O Tuama)
Newsgroups: news.groups,rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: rec.arts.cinema: moderated or not?
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Date: 23 Jan 90 13:07:54 GMT
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In article <14161@fluke.COM> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes:
>b)  Moderation of rec.arts.cinema is not going to Infringe your Personal
>    Freedoms, if handled as it has been in other moderated groups I've had
>    experience with.

Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be the case though, Jeff, and 
that's quite clear from Manavendra's latest series of articles.

>c)  Those who see rec.arts.cinema moderation as the first step to a
>    net.dictatorship might do well to step back from it all, and take a deep
>    breath.  

"Net.dictatorship" is your term, Jeff, I don't think any of us view
this issue in such extreme terms.  Those of us who oppose moderation
of this newsgroup do so because we don't think any newsgroup should
be moderated except as a last resort.  Perhaps those of you who are
so convinced that this newsgroup will be overrun with great hordes 
of unwashed r.a.m proletariat would do well to step back from it all 
and take a deep breath yourselves.

>In summary, I'd have to say that I'll continue to read (and to post) to
>rec.arts.movies, and that I'll vote yes for rec.arts.cinema (or any sensible
>name), moderated or not, with the provision that we could turn it into a
>moderated group later on.

Well, yes, that was my suggestion, offered as a compromise in an ef-
fort to reach a group concensus on the moderation issue.  Unfortunate-
ly Joel Levin decided concensus wasn't necessary.