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From: gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Causes on the net...
Message-ID: <60@l5.uucp>
Date: Mon, 2-Sep-85 16:56:31 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  2 16:56:31 1985
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Organization: Ell-Five [Consultants], San Francisco
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Summary: The net is here for what we-all want to talk about.

Thanks, Lauren, for a thought-provoking message.  My 2c are that net.peace
is a good experiment to try.  Enough people on the net are interested in
creating and keeping the peace that I think there's a critical mass.

The net seems to be a forum for more than just techno-talk and I for one
am very glad of that.

Maybe a "mod.peace" would make it more likely to contain useful info and less
likely to contain flames.

There are a few cheap "public access" sites here in San Francisco,
e.g. the Well (call 415-332-6106 and login as "newuser"), where
non-computer peaceniks can access the net.  University computer centers
are another place this can happen.  I will give accounts on my system
to peace-people or groups here in SF if they want to network via my
system.  All these sites all carry their weight (of other peoples'
traffic they don't themselves read); they aren't freeloading.  If they
want to talk peace rather than [or in addition to] unix, why not?

PS:  I probably wouldn't read it except a skim every few months.