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From: ag5@pucc-i (Dish of the Day)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: mod.all and net.fascism
Message-ID: <725@pucc-i>
Date: Fri, 26-Oct-84 04:27:36 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 26 04:27:36 1984
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Keywords: mod, censorship

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	klipper!biep states that perhaps there should be net.<blah>.only,
and that persons posting to those groups are stating <by their posting> that
they "belong" to the <blah> group...  ("How many people would be posting to
net.motss.only then?")  

	This defeats the purpose of {mod|net}.motss.  You see, we (the
gay community) *don't* seek to keep non-gays from posting to the news-
group (example:  oliven!rap isn't gay, but he does support gay rights..)

	The idea behind mod.motss seems to be to keep discussions which
require a defense of homosexuality out...  That wasn't the purpose of the
net.motss (although it does seem to be the primary activity there now.)  
I have to defend that which I was given to live with everyday; I don't
want to have to defend it in a group where we are *supposed* to be
discussing gay issues..  Gays who recognize the fact that they're gay
have accepted the fact that "Gay is OK.."  <I do hope that this isn't
a gross generalization; I do feel that this is the fact...  I know
that it is in my case.>  In many cases this has taken a *lot* of
doing...  they don't want to go through all that sort of stuff again
for the benefit of the rest of the world; all that is wanted is a
discussion of *issues* which affect gays.  Whether homosexuality is
moral/immoral, correct/incorrect, etc. simply *isn't* an issue.
As a result, we don't want to discuss non-issues.

	I hope this makes sense.  I think that it does..

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