Toto <toto@sk.sympatico.ca> writes:
Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
Killfiles? So many scumbags whine about their inability to use them, so they try to silence whomever they don't like.
Or they have them and still try to silence those whom they don't like.
Sure - remember how Sandy Sandfart, the marketing guy from C2Net, claimed that he's already filtering out me e-mail on this list, but wanted me silenced to protect the "newbies" who haven't yet filtered me out?
Yes, if Alice just posts her regexps on a public Web page, a clueful person can automatically fetch them and add them to his killfile or even forge cancels for Bobs' articles that contain them.
I think this would be a stupid thing to do because Bobs' articles may contain useful information besides Alice's ad. Also the regexp might occur in a followup to Bob's article, which may contain useful information.
Some CypherPunks regularly brag about the size of their killfiles.
The anonymous coward known as "Lucky Green" likes to publicly *PLONK* anyone he disagrees with. This is supposed to represent the sound the address makes as it hits the killfile. of course once Lucky Green *PLONKS* someone, he becomes obsessed with that person - stalks them around and follows up on anything they say with his Cabal drivel.
To me, this is not a far cry from bragging about not reading anything written by niggers, "Cause they ain't not got nothing to say less'n they say they is goin' back to Africa."
Well - they're welcome to killfile whatever they don't like. No one's forcing them to read the traffic they don't want. Problem is, net.scum like Cocksucker John Gilmore and Timmy May want to prevent others from having access to the information the net.scum wants to suppress. In a recent incident, a teenage Cabal stooge has published a defamatory web page known as "Global Killfile" and advertised it heavily on usenet. As the result, the wife of one of the people mentioned in the "Global Killfile" just had her plug pulled by her ISP who cited this as the only reason for their action. I think they have a very good civil case - better than C2Net's barratrous threats.
But of course a reader is welcome to cut off his own nose to spite and face and to killfile anything he likes - as long as he doesn't prevent others from reading what they feel like reading.
During the censorship experiment on the list, many of the list members showed their flat-foreheaded tendencies by calling for the censoring of anyone who deviated from the norm.
Definitely - and I remember everyone who supported Cocksucker John Gilmore. On a related topic, consider the make.money.fast spam. Anyone with half a clue can killfile it both in Usenet and in e-mail, since it contains essentially the same key words. But a number of people feel obliged to forge cancels for MMF posted to Usenet because it's supposed to be a pyramid scheme that's supposed to be illegal in *some* jusrisdictions. Following the same logic, the government of Singapore can forge cancels for any Usenet articles critical of their Hitler-like leader because such criticism is illegal in Singapore. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps