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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:
>
>:
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>: >>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?
>
>
>
>:
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>: >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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>Subject: Is NETCOM anti-pot??/GO GNN for sci.med.cannabis!!
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>Date: 5 Nov 1996 07:55:50 -0500
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