Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!well!mnemonic From: mnemonic@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Censorship on the USENET Message-ID: <21282@well.sf.ca.us> Date: 21 Oct 90 15:07:08 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 26 In article rmz@ifi.uio.no (Bjoern Remseth) writes: > >Have any of you experienced something similar? Do you have a >suggestion about how this should be counterattacked? In my own opinion, the best argument that can be made to preserve the alt groups, and in particular the alt.sex hierarchy, is that they serve as lightning rods for discussions and topics that otherwise would distract other newsgroups. For example, many nontechnical discussions of sexuality that almost certainly would have turned up in one or more of the sci groups go to alt.sex instead. --Mike -- Mike Godwin, (617) 864-0665 |"If the doors of perception were cleansed mnemonic@well.sf.ca.us | every thing would appear to man as it is, Electronic Frontier | infinite." Foundation | --Blake