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From: aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg)
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Subject: Re: rec.arts.erotica - call for votes
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Date: 9 Feb 90 19:50:59 GMT
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In article <730@banyan.UUCP> tim@banyan.UUCP (Tim Henrion@Eng@Banyan) writes:
>A sexually explicit group such as this SHOULD NOT be put
>under the rec.arts hierarchy to prevent the unintentional
>offending of unsuspecting news hierarchy parusers. It
>should be put under alt.sex instead. How about
>alt.sex.erotica? The person who called for votes justified
>the creation of rec.arts.erotica because the erotica content
>of alt.sex was driving that group's volume too high. That's
>not a valid justification for moving the stuff under
>the unsuspecting rec.arts hierarchy.


A suggestion has been made for offensive articles, called rot13. That's
more than sufficient, in my opinion. 

Erotica is a legitimate art form, and should be under the rec.arts hierarchy.

Users don't have to subscribe, you know. There is a big argument against
alt.* called propagation. Because alt.* is an anarchy, groups routinely
pop up that some individual thinks are a good idea. Mainstream USENET
groups at least have had some number of people express an interest. In
any case, the discussion period has ended, and it sounds like the vote's
on it's way to being successful.

aem
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