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From: dyer@wivax.UUCP (Stephen Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: net.gay
Message-ID: <18656@wivax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 11-Sep-83 01:38:55 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 11 01:38:55 1983
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I fully support the idea of moderating and digesting a 'net.gays'
news group.  It solves the first-order problem of giving anonymity
to those who require it, as well as filtering out cranks, too.
The argument that such a newsgroup would give the impression
that gays are different from others is specious--clearly, gay issues
are as valid a topic of separate discourse as are trivia, cooks,
audio and autos, not to mention politics, religion or women's issues.

It should be interesting to see how many sites accept or pass this
group through to others.  My own opinion is that there will be LOTS
of censorship.  I hope I'm proved wrong.

/Steve Dyer
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