-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 10:52 PM 6/8/96 CST, roy@sendai.scytale.com wrote: [snip]

Am I the only one whose ironometer just pegged?

Actually, now that you mention it, mine is pegged. I hadn't noticed, because I was busy trying to recalibrate my bullshit detector which was off the fucking dial. LD's post is full of shit. David Gerard, Jon Noring, and Ron Newman are not "flamers." People who have even lurked there for a short while should know this. I've seen Ron urge people towards compassionate behavior on a.r.s. more than just about anyone on a.r.s. It's a bit hard to be compassionate when you're dealing with a group that uses every means at its disposal to silence its critics. I don't even think Nauta is on a.r.s., except for perhaps an occasional crosspost or two. Perhaps he lurks, but he doesn't post there to any significant extent. I don't know of any "Anti-Scientologists" who are forging cancels. I really doubt anyone would have checked with Dimitri first, though :) JEM did issue a bunch of cancels, as have some of the ISPs whose services have been abused. We have been inundated with over 12,000 "vertical spam" posts since May 19th, and it's still coming in. Many of these posts are repetitions of the same materials, and must be well over the BI by now. "Anti-Scientologists" have discussed various technological methods of dealing with the spam (cross-posted to news.admin.net-abuse), but no plan has been seized upon due to lack of consensus. I've written an article in the latest issue of my zine about the spam, if people would like more info. URL in my sig. Rich -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMbp6fYT0GKfZRA/9AQFGVgQAvvH4Fa8nwF6qbqHGVuKfO2uv0Ynw388Z 0QxO42wIzt9VrNckRvn+geYFRRYu9DoasGCw8imQqBN85OY3OasjpOIycyQnrjEW C3MqyP44esuyThI6Ds30bwFYc4rP+ZWFWp1rmgv3LmYAaPdh1dAwtzPsKzy4N4NF 0pLAsusDr9k= =PSIh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ______________________________________________________________________ Rich Burroughs richieb@teleport.com http://www.teleport.com/~richieb See my Blue Ribbon Page at http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/blueribbon New EF zine "cause for alarm" - http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/cause