From: Toto <toto@sk.sympatico.ca>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 08:10:40 -0800 (PST)
To: paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: Rejection policy of the Cypherpunks mailing list
Message-ID: <199701251610.IAA28182@toad.com>
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paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk wrote:
> 
> John Gilmore is free to appoint
> whoever he wants to moderate his list, he is free to censor all
> messages which criticise him and his censorship, however, subscribers
> to the list should be told they are being censored on these grounds
> and not on some facade of "crypto relevancy" or another thin veil
> drawn weakly over content based censorship to protect a certain class
> of list members.

  It became rather glaringly obvious after moderation was announced
that class structure would be the defining feature of moderation.
  Those who felt themselves to be in the 'upper class' made no
bones about it.

Toto