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From: gl8f@astsun8.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
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Subject: Re: Illegal Editing, Tampering of ST Report by Greg Lindahl
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Date: 5 Jun 90 04:33:18 GMT
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In article <30527@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
>This is all pretty comical...

Indeed it is.

>What's really been amusing though is the number of people here who are
>willing to have Greg Lindahl do their thinking for them...
> 
>Perhaps we should let him censor our daily newspapers too... that way he
>could just snip out any articles he doesn't think are interesting..

What's really been amusing are people like you who decry "censorship"
without looking to see what I'm actually did. I threw out things I
couldn't pass on (ads), things that were total paranoid ravings (the
extra "editorials"), postings that were merely messages from GEnie (I
was concerned about copyright issues), and things unrelated to the ST
(CPU Report, full of factual errors, too.) When I tossed something
out, I marked them in the text, so that readers could see what I did.
If they didn't like it, they could complain. I got very few complaints
and very many thank-yous.

[ I might note that it seems that Ralph never looked at an abridged
  issue, either, he just read the header I started sticking on the
  issues. ]

I guess your idea of a newspaper is some sort of service where anyone
can submit any article they want, and the newspaper must print it.

You know, Bob, if you don't like the way I run the list, why don't you
volunteer to take it over? I don't get paid to do this job, I only did
it because I was tired of seeing people argue about posting the
magazines on this group. And my reward is getting slandered in an
international forum that I have no way of replying to. Well, fine,
I'll just distribute the magazine run by a sane editor.

So, just let me know, you can have the Z*Net mailing list and you can
take care of all the administrivia. And someday you'll find that
ultimate newspaper. But I'll bet you aren't interested, you prefer
sitting on the sidelines and sniping to doing anything real.

Have a nice day.

--
"Perhaps I'm commenting a bit cynically, but I think I'm qualified to."
                                              - Dan Bernstein