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marchany@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Randy Marchany) writes:

[...]
>Really now, do you think that suggesting that
>readers contact their campus newspapers (as suggested by you in a
>subsequent post) is really helpful? Frankly, I  can see the newspapers
>grabbing the "hot" issue that will grab the reader's attention and not
>give the full picture (any guess as to what the issue would be?
>:-)). All we have to do is review the Houston newspaper episode about
>Usenet and other incidents like it to realize that no good came out of
>it.

This is a good point. People should consider this before contacting
their newspapers. However, at many places (Iowa State U., many of the
Canadian schools, Boston U., to name a few) the bans and restrictions
are so entrenched that I don't think a newspaper story is likely to do
any harm and may help by shaking things up.

[...]
>I feel that your post didn't present the entire picture.
[...]

Another good point. Any one who sends a press release to a student
newspaper should have some knowledge of the incident.

- Carl
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Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign