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From: webber@brandx.rutgers.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: Creation of alt.CyberPunk (was: Re: newsgroup creation policies..)
Message-ID: <368@brandx.rutgers.edu>
Date: Thu, 17-Sep-87 09:08:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: brandx.368
Posted: Thu Sep 17 09:08:36 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 09:28:59 EDT
References: <1987Aug24.140756.8062@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <13890@amdahl.amdahl.com> <48@bacchus.DEC.COM>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Lines: 30
Summary: sounds good to me
To: webber@aramis.rutgers.edu, pleasant@rutgers.edu

In article <48@bacchus.DEC.COM>, reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) writes:
< The alt subnet was created by John Gilmore and Brian Reid, with lots of
< input from various San Francisco Bay-area people, notably Gordon Moffett.
< ...
< John and Gordon and I are freedom-loving people. We believe in netnews as a
< new kind of communication, and we enjoy the unregulated free speech that it
< provides. We want you to have that freedom too, and we believe in it strongly
< enough that we are not going to try to regulate your use of that freedom.
< 
< Although I haven't consulted any of the other "founders" of the alt network
< on this issue, I am fairly confident that I speak for all of them when I say
< that the policy for newsgroup creation on the alt network is that there is no
< policy. Certainly there is no "alt backbone cabal" that votes on new
< newsgroups. The whole point of the alt subnet is that alt groups go only to
< people who want them, and don't go to people who don't want them.
< 
< Even Bob Webber is welcome to create an alt group. From what I've seen of his
< postings I don't think I'll want to get that group at my site, and I
< certainly won't read it. But that's my privilege.

Fine.  I hearby create:

                 alt.CyberPunk

--------- BOB (webber@aramis.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!webber)

p.s., Please feel free to go ahead and start the conversation without
me.  I will have to wait until my local news administrator decides
that this is a valid control message on the alt network before the
group is available for me to post to.