🚀 go-pugleaf

 I monitor this EFA newsgroup from both the Internet and also here from
 Archernet International.  Traffic that appears on one medium doesn't
 always appear on the other.  For instance some of Rod Speed's postings
 haven't made it through to the news-server in the United States alt.net
 nor to the access.one news-server.

 Similarly a couple of postings I made on the Internet to these servers
 haven't made it back to Archernet, although they have propograted between
 the alt.net server and access.one.

 I look to the newsgroup for a relatively free interchange of news, as I
 have a deep distrust of censorship.

 I have little faith that the EFA newsgroup provides a certain mechanism
 whereby I can find news and information of value in assessing the actions
 of governments, nor of being certain that I can read alternate points of
 view.  As such, both the EFA newsgroup and the EFA itself, while being
 of value seem to me to be of limited value.

 I'm sure a similar situation exists in other newsgroups.  It seems
 preferable to have access to a number of sources of information, rather
 than relying on just one..

 Alt.net offers little other than news, and carries an uncensored feed of
 close to 16,000 newsgroups from around the globe.  Perhaps there is a
 problem with the gateways.

        Bob Bain             <Bobb@acslink.aone.net.au>

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