Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!chip
From: chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: In Moderation Network in the press
Message-ID: <263@vector.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 11 Jun 89 03:47:46 GMT
References: <9367@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal)
Organization: Dallas Semiconductor
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In article <9367@csli.Stanford.EDU> ole@csli.Stanford.EDU (Ole Jacobsen) writes:
[quoting from SFcomical article:]
>   Geoffrey Goodfellow says that the mass of useless information circulating 
>through the nation's public computer networks is almost as abhorrent as the 
>Exxon oil washing up on Prince William Sound.

This is downright offensive.

I have had two concerns about "In Moderation".  First, I am concerned how
their editing process will impact the free flow of ideas.  Second, I am
worried that it will take a public resource and abuse it for private
financial gain.  Anybody willing to use such a tragic incident for personal
gain would probably have little conscience when it comes to something as
mundane as USENET.

I had been undecided about "In Moderation".  No longer.
-- 
Chip Rosenthal / chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US / Dallas Semiconductor / 214-450-5337
"I wish you'd put that starvation box down and go to bed" - Albert Collins' Mom