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From: mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch)
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Subject: Re: As long as we are taliking about rmgrouping ...
Message-ID: <16421@styx.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 20:21:23 EST
Article-I.D.: styx.16421
Posted: Thu Nov 21 20:21:23 1985
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Reply-To: mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch)
Organization: Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Livermore, CA
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In article <429@graffiti.UUCP> peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> > is "edited".  I have never heard of a publication that will just
> > blindly publish ANYTHING that walks in off the street, uncut.
> > And if there were such a publication, you can bet no one would read it.
> 
> I'm holding a copy of one right now. I read it. It's an APA (amateur press
> association) called "Alarums and Excursions". Anyone who wants to pay $2/page
> can get in on it. The editor is Lee Gold (sdcrdcf!barryg), ask her about
> it. The only things she cuts that I know of are obscenity and flames.
                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Evidently Mr. da Silva did not notice the self-contradictory nature of
his article before posting it.  It is precisely "obscenity and flames"
and who decides what they are that is being discussed here. I have no
beef with APAs in general or Lee Gold's A & E in specific. Editing and
censorship are two sides of the same coin. This not necessarily bad,
and as I work primarily as an editor (of technical material), I
understand the difference, but would find it difficult to define it.

Michael C. Berch
mcb@lll-tis-b.ARPA
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