Coincidentally, before reading this, I finally decided to killfile Choate. I'm not sure whether it was the inane nuttiness, the weird quoting of the First Amendment with metronome regularity, or the loopy argument that protesters trying to trash a police van were really doing that by way of polite introduction before perhaps extending an invite to afternoon tea. Anyway, thanks to the graces of procmail, I now have a "trash" folder, and a sincere expectation that my cypherpunks traffic will fall in volume while rising in quality by 20 percent. -Declan On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 09:54:35AM -0700, Tim May wrote:
After reading the handful of messages that made it through lne.com's filters, I double-checked my "trash" directory to see what my own filters had thrown away.
Some kind of new record: 18 messages from Choate, posted during just a 2-hour period this morning. From the headers, most look to be Choategrams giving us pointers to what Yahoo or CNN make readily available.
(One pulled at random: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20010721/wl/summit_protests_46.html "Summit Protests Rage for Second Day")
Gee, Choate, how would we know about yesterday's news, reported widely, discussed here, if you didn't pass on a pointer to Yahoo?
Some would call it mail-bombing the list to disrupt it. Perhaps. But I expect it's just plain cluelessness. Some kind of "URL Tourette's Syndrome."
Thank Baal for filtering tools.
--Tim May
-- Timothy C. May tcmay@got.net Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns