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From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Illegal Editing, Tampering of ST Report by Greg Lindahl
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Date: 6 Jun 90 05:45:49 GMT
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In reply to Greg Lindahl...
 
I think you were doing a real service to the members of the UseNet
community who have no other source for the online magazines by maintaining
an E-Mail mailing list...
 
What I object to is your changing the content of the publications to suit
your own tastes.
 
 
When you delete "paranoid ravings," you impose your own tastes and opinions
 on everyone who eventually receives the censored version, and who will never
have the opportunity to make up their own minds.
 
If my mailman was a Republican, and was allowed to censor my mail and magazin
I'll bet I'd never see any articles about Democrats...
 
>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.

No, the idea is called "Freedom of the Press" where publications are
guaranteed that they *won't* be censored as you were trying to do...
whether you like it or not, that's the way we do things in the U.S. of A...
 
As far as running the mailing list, I'm far too busy supporting local
Atari user groups...  it's ironic how many "Atari Bashers" are actually
heavily involved in supporting Atari at the grass-roots level, while
most of the "Atari Cheerleaders" are not...
 
If you want to do a service to the UseNet community by forwarding online
magazines, more power to you... it's a great idea, and you deserve a lot
of respect for putting in the time and effort to do it...
 
If you want to censor the content of what you're passing along, forget it...
 
BobR