From news@bluebird.uchicago.edu Wed Aug 7 11:53:11 1996 Received: from MIT.EDU (PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.69.0.28]) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.6.13/2.3JIK) with SMTP id LAA01778; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 11:53:08 -0400 Received: from ncar.ucar.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA19538; Wed, 7 Aug 96 11:46:28 EDT Received: from bluebird.uchicago.edu by ncar.ucar.EDU (NCAR Local/ NCAR Central Post Office 03/11/93) id JAA17808; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 09:46:22 -0600 (MDT) Received: (news@localhost) by bluebird.uchicago.edu (8.6.9/8.6.4) id KAA05838 for alt-answers@ncar.ucar.edu; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 10:45:59 -0500 Newsgroups: alt.adoption,alt.answers,news.answers Path: pulm-mac2.bsd.uchicago.edu!user From: swhite@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu (Steve White) Subject: FAQ: Introduction to alt.adoption X-Nntp-Posting-Host: pulm-mac2.bsd.uchicago.edu Message-Id: Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 16:50:58 GMT Apparently-To: alt-answers@ncar.ucar.edu Hello all, Recently there has been controversy on this forum concerning what might be considered "on-topic" in this newsgroup. Two different people have tried to attack others for their posts and have tried to justify these attacks on the basis of the posts not being "on-topic." These attacks have included complaints to ISP's and have caused at least one ISP to try to tell the rest of us what is appropriate material in this forum. Because of this several of us, myself included, have been engaged off-forum in a discussion of this issue. It's clear that most of us believe that alt.adoption is and should be unmoderated. Because of the emotional and political nature of adoption, wide latitude should be given to the expression of opinion. Shea Grimm has taken these thoughts and written, with input from several, a FAQ which explains this. This FAQ has been put through the denizens of news.answers and has been accepted by them as a FAQ relating to this forum. Some here might question the propriety of such a FAQ. To them I would say [remainder of text deleted by folder-shrink.pl]