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From: hyle@my-dejanews.com <hyle@my-dejanews.com> Subject: Re: Action Alert - Easy Reward from Allah(SWT), EnshaAllah Date: Friday, December 18, 1998 3:35 AM> Bismillahi arraHman arraHeem, > > ...... interested parties should cast their votes depending on whether they > feel yet another unmoderated forum about the Baha'i religion is warranted, > ......It is somewhat misleading to claim that a readily available unmoderated forum exists for discussions on the Baha'i Faith. The existing unmoderated newsgroup, alt.religion.bahai, is hardly accessible due to it being on the obscure hierarchy of 'alt.' I for one cannot access this newsgroup directly because my Internet Service Provider and its feed from usenet does not carry this newsgroup. It is also extremely inconvenient, slow, complicated, and costly to access this newsgroup via webpage services.The proposal to create an unmoderated forum 'talk.religion.bahai' for the open discussion of the Baha'i Faith, is essentially a proposal to rename alt.religion.bahai to talk.religion.bahai. The 'talk.' hierarchy is much more widely carried and hence available to Internet users, because it is considered one of the big-8 hierarchies (e.g. soc., talk., news.)Furthermore, there is no good reason why there can't be several unmoderated or moderated groups in any serious and popular topic. And note that without a widely accessible unmoderated group, all moderated groups in that topic are of questionable legitamacy.I would like to remind that the 'right to free and unfettered discussion' is one of our fundamental and inalienable rights. I take exception at those who call for limiting our civil liberties by opposing the creation of unmoderated groups. Civil liberties are not subject to a (negative) vote. Voting against the creation of unmoderated groups is an act of censorship, IMO.It is only fair that usenet allow the creation of (one or more) unmoderated groups on a widely accessible hierarchy, for any serious and popular topic in which demand has been amply demonstrated. It is an error by usenet to apply the same rules used for the creation of moderated groups to the creation of serious and popular unmoderated groups.Free and unfettered discussion is an inalienable right.S. Shambashi-----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- https://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own Homepage |