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From: smk@axiom.UUCP (Steven M. Kramer)
Newsgroups: net.news.stargate
Subject: Re: Moderate landline Usenet first?
Message-ID: <19@axiom.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 19-Jan-85 16:13:40 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 19 16:13:40 1985
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>mark@cbosgd.UUCP Message-ID: <703@cbosgd.UUCP>

>For those of us who have seen TAP (it's the publication by the phone phreaks,
>the ones who tell you how to make free phone calls - hardly what I would
>call a "magazine", more like a xeroxed newsletter) and the ARPANET (whose
>inhabitants live in mortal fear of being yanked off if they misuse what
>is really a military network), this is hardly surprising.  My guess is that
Good point.

>such a posting (telling that it's suspended publication because it's been
>torched) would make it past a Usenet moderator.  On the other hand,
>if it contained excerpts from TAP telling how to build a blue box, chances
>are it would not get past.
Interesting.  Considering the bulk of USENET sites are ATT, I guess this
is true :)

I couldn't resist.

Actually, I'm for moderated groups too.  From what I've seem the past 2-3
years, the net is in good hands.  The unmoderated net itself will collapse from
dribble and new users getting a `feel' for the net.  I really sense
paranoia out there.  If the net does turn into fascism, those of us who
perceive it as such can simply take the software and run a parallel net.
I think, however, both apathy and a realization that some control is
required will make the moderated net the mainstream for many of us.
-- 
	--steve kramer
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