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In article <19961108121900.HAA22684@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
drgrubor@aol.com wrote:

Nothing, at least not that I could see.

> In article <55ndgm$si4@dhp.com>, aga@dhp.com (Aga) writes:
> 
> >Subject:       Is NETCOM anti-pot??/GO GNN for sci.med.cannabis!!
> >From:  aga@dhp.com (Aga)
> >Date:  5 Nov 1996 07:55:50 -0500
> >
> >Symm (x11x@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
> >: me111@gnn.com (me) wrote:
> >
> >: >nobody@huge.cajones.com (Huge Cajones Remailer) wrote:
> >
> >: >>This was found via DejaNews:
> >
> >:
> >>>***********************************************************************
> ****
> >: >>Subject:      cmsg rmgroup sci.med.cannabis
> >: >>From:         tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence)
> >: >>Date:         1996/09/30
> >: >>Message-Id:   <844049102.27455@uunet.uu.net>
> >: >>X-Info:
> >ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/news/misc/pgpcontrol/README.html
> >: >>Control:      rmgroup sci.med.cannabis
> >: >>X-Pgp-Sig:    2.7 Subject,Control,Message-ID,Date,From,Sender
> >: >>Newsgroups:   sci.med.cannabis
> >
> >: >>sci.med.cannabis is widely considered a bogus newsgroup given that it
> >: >>has not been approved by accepted USENET group creation procedures.
> >: >>Please remove the group from your active file.
> >
> >All "USENET group creation procedures" are obsolete!
> >Any new newsgroup requests should be sent to usenet@pgh.org
> >and they will be added to the big-8 at once.  David Lawrence
> >and UUNET are being replaced by the Usenet Freedom Council.
> >
> >: If this is such a "bogus" newsgroup, then why the heck does AOL have
> >: it on their news server?  I am new to this, but something seems to
> >: smell of censorship here.  Is this the anti-marijuana forces blocking
> >: this sci.med.cannabis newsgroup from the NETCOM news server?
> >
> >
> >
> >:
> >>>***********************************************************************
> ****
> >
> >: >That is a bunch of crap.. That David C Lawrence is just a fat young
> >: >boy who has been messing up usenet for years.  He is about to get
> >: >removed in the near future.  I belong to the sci.med.cannabis mailing
> >: >list at medpot@pgh.org, and they are the ones who are the real
> >: >authority on medical cannabis on this Usenet.  You should subscribe
> >: >to that mailing list if you really want to know what is going on with
> >: >cannabis in this usenet.
> >
> >: >>1) Who is this omniscient David Lawrence at mailto:tale@uunet.uu.net?
> >
> >: >Again, he is a fat young boy who has been able to control usenet for
> >: >the past four years, ever since the last guy quit the job.  He works
> >: >for UUNET and his job is illegal as hell, since he regularly issues
> >: >the kind of messages that you quote.
> >
> >: >>   (Isn't he also on the Presidential Debate Commission?)
> >: >>2) What can be done to create sci.med.cannabis for real?
> >
> >: >It is already created, dude!  Just go to dejanews and you will see
> >: >OVER 200 articles on the list!  Ther main thing is to keep _posting_
> >: >to the newsgroup, regardless of whether it is on your server.
> >
> >: >>With 29,000 Newsgroups, it's hard to grasp why there'd be any
> resistance
> >to
> >: >>sci.med.cannabis!!! People suffering from glaucoma, muscle spasms,
> >wasting
> >: >>syndrome, cancer, asthma, multiple schlerosis, parkinson's disease,
> etc.,
> >: >>could all benefit from sci.med.cannabis. Medical marijuana is going
> to be
> >: >>approved next month in California, and in December 1996 becomes legal
> >there!
> >: >>But no Newsgroup!?!
> >
> >: >The sci.med.cannabis newsgroup DOES exist!  We have it HERE in GNN
> >: >and they have it at the other good ISPs who care about helping medical
> >: >patients.  If your server does not have it, just switch to GNN, or go
> >: >to dejanews to read it.
> >
> >: >>Let's get serious about creating this group. Someone said that GNN
> gets
> >it,
> >: >>but NetCom stopped it several days ago! What's the story?
> >
> >: >Netcom obeyed the standard rmgroup order that is built into it's  INN
> >: >software, that's all, but NETCOM WILL CARRY the sci.med.cannabis
> >: >newsgroup, if you are a customer and just *ask them* -- NETCOM does
> >: >want the business, and every ISP will carry whatever newsgroup that
> >: >you want.
> >
> >: I am a customer of NETCOM and I did ask them.  We will see just what
> >: they do now.  This is getting very interesting.
> >
> >I think they will carry the newsgroup, but then again, NETCOM may be in
> >the hands of Lungren, we will see.
> >
> >medpot(c) foundation
> >
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> >From: aga@dhp.com (Aga)
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> e.usenet,alt.cyberspace,alt.god.grubor,alt.wired,ca.politics
> >Subject: Is NETCOM anti-pot??/GO GNN for sci.med.cannabis!!
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> e.usenet,alt.cyberspace,alt.god.grubor,alt.wired,ca.politics
> >Date: 5 Nov 1996 07:55:50 -0500
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> >References: <199610032038.NAA10676@fat.doobie.com>
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Ed Foster
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