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From: davew@shark.UUCP (Dave Williams)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.stargate,net.followup
Subject: Re: STARGATE (READ THIS!)
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Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 14:46:10 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 21 14:46:10 1985
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As a Tek employee I would like to cast my vote FOR the Stargate
project and for the people who have volunteered their time to
make it happen. At the rate the net is growing and the amount of
traffic increase it should be obvious to the most casual observer
(as they use to say in math textbooks) that the net can not
continue to function as it has in the past. The Stargate concept
makes sense and if moderating the newsgroups are required to
accomplish it then I think that is a small price to pay.
One need only recall the posting of several months ago
by a disgruntled student at a Canadian University claiming
his professor was engaged in aberrant sexual behaviour with
a duck to understand why moderation of the newsgroups is 
necessary to protect the common carrier. Possible copyright
infringement has also been a problem and the only means of
providing some protection is to run the articles by a moderator.
Stargate is a good move technically and politically. Let's
give it a try before we condemn it as a tool of an alleged
clique.
                                Dave Williams
P.S. Gee, I was able to write this entire article without
calling anyone a jerk.

"There is a time to laugh and a time not to laugh
and this is not one of them."