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In article <3v9d0d$5gn@News1.mcs.net>, hcarter@mcs.com (Harry Carter) wrote:
>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. 
>

This issue isn't censorship... but if there is a newsgroup that is new or has 
little action and I have something to put in it... BUT, since it hasn't been 
triggered to become active on MCS, I can't... I believe Karl has been more 
then accodmodating when asked to "turn on a specific newsgroup in the past"... 
but this is the one area that the automation doesn't support.

But I will say that when asked, we can eventually get the newsgroups :)



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