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barry@wwa.com (Barry A Barr) wrote:

>>Yes, we started doing that when the "alt.barney.dinosaur.die.die.die.die"
>>stuff started around here.  That kind of newgroup/rmgroup war is highly
>>destructive and serves no useful purpose, as well as possibly interfering
>>with legitimate operations of the groups.  So we whacked the newgroup
>>procedure so as to not automatically honor them in areas other than the 
>>Big 7.

>Who are you to censor/decide what your users are able to view. If it
>is out there, they should be able to make those decisions for
>themselves.

Given the copyright issues, I think Karl has a legit reason for his
CYA non-carrying of certain groups.  I also fail to see the objection
to wanting some traffic in groups (eg alt) that don't have a well
regulated creation mechanism.  I fail to see this as censorhip. 


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