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From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: net.gay
Message-ID: <309@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Sep-83 01:17:40 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 30 01:17:40 1983
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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et sooner or later no matter what we do.

Unless we all censor ourselves until there isn't anything potentially
offensive about USENET to the most paranoid, archaic management.
Do we want this?  The main reason I follow USENET newsgroups and
wade through all the inane maunderings, repetitions, illiteracy,
truncated messages, etc., is that occasionally things pass by that
would not be permitted on, for instance, the ARPANET.  Now there
are reasons for the ARPANET being as restrictive as it is, but
they mostly don't apply (at least not in the same way) to USENET.
We (the net at large) don't have to censor ourselves in the same way.
As somebody else wrote recently:

	Is this net so chickenshit it can't handle topics seen daily
	by six year olds on network TV? 

-- 
John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas
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