Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site maynard.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!talcott!wjh12!maynard!campbell From: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Re: Causes on the net... (net.peace) Message-ID: <150@maynard.UUCP> Date: Sun, 8-Sep-85 22:33:50 EDT Article-I.D.: maynard.150 Posted: Sun Sep 8 22:33:50 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 10-Sep-85 05:19:33 EDT References: <205@kepler.UUCP> <774@vortex.UUCP> <2750@sun.uucp> <1159@gatech.CSNET> Organization: The Boston Software Works Inc., Maynard, MA Lines: 43 > ... > I think the idea is unworkable and although the goals are laudable, > Usenet is not the place to do it. Start a separate net or mailing > list, if you wish. Just describe a new distribution (call it peace or > whatever) and call the other sites interested in being part of such a > network. Foot your own costs and deal with the legal liabilities, if > you are interested, but don't drag the rest of the net into it. > -- > Gene "3 months and counting" Spafford > The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 > CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ CSNet-Relay.ARPA > uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!spaf This idea is so good and so obvious, I feel foolish for not having thought of it myself. By using a new distribution, we can use the already-written USENET software, without dragging in sites that might (justifiably) get offended enough to drop all USENET traffic. I am a strong supporter of action (including illegal action) to stop the arms race and the destruction of the environment, but recognize that a net.peace group would be a very bad idea on USENET. Gene's suggestion gives a very viable alternative. If USENET is defined as all sites that get net.announce, we could define PEACENET as all sites that get peace.announce (say). All we need is a set of sites willing to forward peace.all to each other. I can volunteer my site for forwarding such news in the Boston/Cambridge and Maynard (Mass.) areas. Any other sites interested in forming a `peace' distribution? Of course, this means no free ride on the backbone. Volunteer sites will likely have some real long-distance phone charges to deal with. But if the idea catches on it might be possible to get funding from some of the more established peace groups (Center for Defense Information, AFSC, Mobilization for Survival, etc.) -- Larry Campbell decvax!genrad The Boston Software Works, Inc. \ 120 Fulton St. seismo!harvard!wjh12!maynard!campbell Boston MA 02109 / / ihnp4 cbosgd ARPA: campbell%maynard.uucp@harvard.arpa