In article <Jul.14.14.05.09.1992.9951 at genbank.bio.net> kristoff at genbank.bio.net (David Kristofferson) writes:
>>The bionet newsgroups are supported by federal funds and thus can not
>be used to lobby for or against political candidates. While general
>discussions of science funding policy may be appropriate for
>BIOFORUM/bionet.general, please refrain from comments on individual
>candidates or political parties. If you want to discuss politics
>there are other USENET forums such as talk.politics and alt.politics
>where this can be done without restriction.
> First let me say that I _do_ agree that political discussions shold
not be carried on here. But I can't believe that this statment is true.
There can not possibly be any rule against posting a comment that favours
one candidate, and this wouldn't even be bad manners if the article was on
the topic of the newsgroup.
It would be rude to post articles to a newsgroup that have electioneering
as thier sole purpose, but I bet you would be hard pressed to find a way to
stop someone from doing it.
DanZ
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