From: paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 09:15:18 -0800 (PST)
To: Anonymous <lucifer@dhp.com>
Subject: Re: IMDMP: SOURCE CODE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT
Message-ID: <853865189.102181.0@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
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> >> ...but I must say the list has gone downhill sharply since 
> >> the start of the censorship.
> >
> >I guess this a classic case of seeing what you want to see.
> >(Uh, Paul, the moderation experiment HASN'T STARTED YET.)

I knew that when I wrote this, but the fact that Vulis has been 
banned from the list is most definitely censorship and has lowered 
the philiosophy of the list (as in original purpose and ideaology) to 
a lower plane and provoked a number of flame wars which would 
otherwise have not taken place. 

> No, he's got it right.  The announcement of the moderation experiment
> was followed by a decline in interesting threads.

I noticed this too but it was not what I was referring to.

 

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