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.
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. 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."
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. -- Toto "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html