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Computer scientists have been involved in making information
resources widely available since the 1960s.  Such resources are
analogous to libraries.  The newsgroups are available on various
networks are the computer analog of magazines and partial
prototypes of future universal computer libraries.  These
libraries will make available the information resources of the
whole world to anyone's terminal or personal computer.

Therefore, the criteria for including newsgroups in computer
systems or removing them should be identical to those for
including books in or removing books from libraries.  For this
reason, and since the resource requirements for keeping
newsgroups available are very small, the Computer Science
Department has decided not to censor the presence of newsgroups
in the Department's computers.