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Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!dgp.toronto.edu!pavel
From: pavel@dgp.toronto.edu (Pavel Rozalski)
Subject: Re: Democratic Newsgroup ?
Message-ID: <8903301755.AA13961@explorer.dgp.toronto.edu>
Summary: It'll never work
Keywords: democracy
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
References: <206000001@cdp>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 12:55:30 EST

In article <206000001@cdp> madavis@cdp.UUCP writes:
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>It would be very interesting to have a joke conference that is
>moderated by the opinions of the readers, rather than by one person:
>rec.humor.dem, "dem" for democratic.

What? You expect democracy to work on this net? Someone is sure to can
the joke well before it reaches a significant portion of the net. It
is far too easy to offend a small group of net folks who will probably
raise a sufficient uproar to stop the joke.

Pavel Rozalski

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