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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: net.peace quandry - a proposal to settle it
Message-ID: <844@burl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 18:14:14 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  3 18:14:14 1985
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Summary: 

To keep me from wasting your uucp time stating it over and over, all of
the below is my opinion -- flame at me via mail; not on the net -- I'll
read and respond.
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Except for a few VERY radical groups, I think that most people like the
concept of peace -- the problem is that very few of them are willing to
get up off their butts and do anything about it.  Therefore, the idea of
peace is not in and of itself really a debatable subject; it is a rather a
political issue in our world today.

Conclusion #1:  Leave peace discussions in net.politics

There is, I also believe, widespread interest in the peace movement; wide
enough that a lot of people would like to know what is being done and what
is going on near enough to them that they could attend.

Conclusion #2:  Create mod.peace with a stern moderator who only allows
		announcements of upcoming events and (possibly) short,
		factual news items on the outcome of prior events.  It
		would be a mini net.announce for peaceniks.

In the past two weeks my disk usage here on burl in /usr/spool/news has
grown a whopping 7.5 megabytes.  TWO WEEKS!!  I know that school is
coming in, but this has GOT to slow down.

Conclusion #3:  Lauren is right -- we gotta do something to stop this
		avalanche; and there is almost nothing we can do with
		the current environment except moderate everything; which
		none of us on the "net of the free and the modems of the
		broke, er, brave" want to see.  Let's do what we can to
		slow this monster down gracefully.  For all you peaceniks
		out there -- if we can really get this diverse mass to cut
		down on their Usenet traffic, think what unity a common
		cause like peace could establish!!
-- 

The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3313 (Cornet 291)
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