Adam Beck put this nicely:
Some people have been arguing that cancelling other peoples posts based on their own subjective views is a good thing.
It would seem that they are arguing that it is a good thing because it saves bandwidth, and because it gives them satisfaction to silence unpopular minorities.
Foo on that.
It's censorship. If you didn't write it, you have no business cancelling it.
Thank you for wording this yet another way.
A temporary fix for emails, or another approach, is to use hashcash. Hashcash is a token of CPU time. It proves that the sender has consumed a given number of seconds/minutes/hours CPU time. The receiver sets their software to reject mail (bounce with explanation, or put into potential spam folder) to squelch out spam. A description of hashcash, and an implementation can be found here:
While I don't know that I would use this yet, I applaud the author for an attempt to address the "spam problem" in a non-content-based manner. I will certainly investigate this more than briefly. ------ Dave Hayes - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org Freedom Knight of Usenet - http://www.jetcafe.org/~dave/usenet "It is a dragon, destroyer of all," cried the ants. Then a cat caught the lizard.