Xref: utzoo news.groups:17486 alt.drugs:2379 Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!decwrl!purdue!haven!mimsy!mojo!russotto From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) Newsgroups: news.groups,alt.drugs Subject: Re: soc.drugs Message-ID: <1990Feb8.060900.19603@eng.umd.edu> Date: 8 Feb 90 06:09:00 GMT References: <131328@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1990Feb7.030722.15380@eng.umd.edu> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Organization: Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 21 In article tjo@its.bt.co.uk (Tim Oldham) writes: [propsals for *.[*.].drugs] > >I know this sounds silly, but if we could keep the word 'drug' out >of it, it might just stand a chance of being available in the UK. >Alt.drugs is censored by the UK backbone, and my hunch is that the >name upset The Powers That Be there. Alt.sex and alt.sex.bondage are >similarly censored. > It is silly-- talk.politics.drugs is the appropriate name, and if the powers that be there can't accept it, it is because they truly don't want any discourse on drugs. This group wouldn't be on drugs and how to use them, it would be on the drug problem and how to stop it, the side-effects of the so-called War on Drugs, etc, etc. If the UK backbone wants to censor that, their users will recognize that they AREN'T censoring it because of the word 'drugs' in there. But, if you want to be cryptic and really think it will fool the UK censors, try talk.politics.cds (for Controlled Dangerous Substances) -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu ][, ][+, ///, ///+, //e, //c, IIGS, //c+ --- Any questions?