Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site wivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!wivax!dyer From: dyer@wivax.UUCP (Stephen Dyer) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: net.gay--offensive illegal and generally undesirable Message-ID: <18727@wivax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Sep-83 23:59:09 EDT Article-I.D.: wivax.18727 Posted: Thu Sep 29 23:59:09 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Sep-83 21:29:11 EDT References: <135@denelcor.UUCP>, <18656@wivax.UUCP>, <1050@utcsstat.UUCP> <315@cbosgd.UUCP> <286@ut-sally.UUCP> Organization: Wang Institute, Tyngsboro, Ma. 01879 Lines: 26 ...!root44!jmc is free to exercise his 'responsibility' in censoring the proposed 'net.gay' and 'net.women.only'. Would that he had exercised the same virtue when posting his opposition to these groups! Let him enumerate just what 'illegal' might be discussed--it's news to me. Back it up with facts--or hold it back. The only saving grace in this minor tempest is that those resolutely opposed to the formation of 'net.gay' have consistently failed to make any case at all for their position, preferring instead to hide behind cloudy innuendo and irrational non-arguments. It is the unmasking of this opposition that may yet have some positive effect. 32 (two more today) people have expressed their opinion that 'net.gay' should be formed. It's time to act. The discussion is no longer productive--all the arguments for and against the group have been aired again and again. And, frankly, I'm growing tired of having to fend off arguments that I don't respect. /Steve Dyer decvax!wivax!dyer decvax!genrad!wjh12!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca