Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!cwruecmp!atvax!ncoast!bsa From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery (the tame hacker on the North Coast)) Newsgroups: net.news.stargate Subject: Re: Need for Stargate screening? Message-ID: <552@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Sun, 20-Jan-85 11:25:24 EST Article-I.D.: ncoast.552 Posted: Sun Jan 20 11:25:24 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 24-Jan-85 19:13:15 EST References: <373@hercules.UUCP> <3271@alice.UUCP> <1592@qubix.UUCP> Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery (the tame hacker on the North Coast)) Organization: The North Coast Xenix System, Cleveland Lines: 22 Summary: > Article <1592@qubix.UUCP>, from msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow) +---------------- | > The moderation of Stargate vs. the unmoderation of the rest of USENET is | > completely analogous to what you may view on commercial TV vs. what you may | > view on cable TV. Commercial TV is broadcast (this is THE KEY WORD) intothe | > homes of people who expect to see things having some modicum of taste; | | This is a complete red herring. The stargate data is only visible if you | misadjust your TV set and then it only appears in the form of white dots | running along the top of the picture. People could not accidently see | the *content* of the stargate broadcasts. What are you *talking* about? What he said is: Stargate moderation is to the Usenet net.all as Commercial TV is to Cable TV. He did NOT say that you can watch the Usenet on TV. --bsa -- Brandon Allbery @ decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!bsa (..ncoast!tdi1!bsa business) 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio 44131 +1 216 524 1416 (or what have you) Who said you had to be (a) a poor programmer or (b) a security hazard to be a hacker?