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From: Jonathan Magid
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 00:29

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I fail to see anything wrong with the use of triangle.general
for political postings about local and state candidates.

The Usenet is a public forum and in many ways, the city
distribution (i.e. "triangle") is like a city cafe or
bulleting board.  I would say that it is appropriate to
post political propaganda in such a forum, although
slander against political opponents is not.

It has always been unacceptable to post blatantly 
commercial messages to the net, but why extend that
to political partisanship?

jem.


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