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From: mark.bennison@gecm.com (Mark Bennison)
Subject: Re: RFD: comp.object.moderated moderated
Date: 1998/10/13
Message-ID: <36234afd.80326813@news.geccs.gecm.com>#1/1
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References: <907918039.22235@isc.org> <36210B47.6A5FE581@eiffel.com>
 <w1rk926jkch.fsf@falcon>
Organization: GEC Marconi Radar & Defence Systems
Newsgroups: 
 news.groups,comp.object,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.ada
Date: 1998-10-13T00:00:00+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

mayp@falcon (Patrick May) thought long and hard and wrote:

>In article <36210B47.6A5FE581@eiffel.com> Bertrand Meyer <Bertrand.Meyer@eiffel.com> writes:
> > `comp.object.moderated' is a blatant attempt at censoring
> > any non-conforming view on object technology.
>
>     The creation of comp.object.moderated is an attempt to maintain a
>minimum level of civility in the discussion of OO technology.  The
>charter does not allow censorship based on content.  This group has
>been requested solely due to the pollution of comp.object by a single
>prolific poster who makes some interesting points but wraps them in
>flames, insults, and off-topic material.
>
<snip>

I've been reading this thread in comp.lang.ada and not all posts make
it there so I may have missed something but... isn't the proposal for
the creation of a /new/ group that is moderated? Surely the old group
comp.object will still exist so I don't see how this can be construed
as censorship since a forum for posting 'non-conforming' views still
exists.

Just my UKP0.02.

Mark.

>Regards,
>
>Patrick May