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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Anarchy
Message-ID: <61181@bbn.BBN.COM>
Date: 29 Nov 90 12:04:38 GMT
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curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) writes:

}craig@com50.c2s.mn.org (Craig Wilson) writes:

}> In article <yLFVs4w163w@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca> curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt Sam
}> >Oh?  How about some examples of this centralised authority?  There is
}> >on the internet, but I have yet to see any on the usenet.
}> 
}> Moderated newsgroups and the newgroup creation "rights" consolidated in the
}> hands of the moderator of news.announce.newgroups; to list the most obvious.

}Oh?  It's not too tough to post to moderated newsgroups without going
}though the moderator.  

Indeed.  Alt.hackers is, in fact, a "moderated" group but has no
moderator.  In order to post to that group at all, you have to be
enough of a hacker to be able to figure out how to forge an approval.
No big deal...

  /Bernie\