Re: [STATS] Cypherpunks subscriptions on and off
Black Unicorn writes:
More fear from Mr. Thorn that his own time in the spotlight might be drawing to a close. God forbid his captive audience might vanish.
Tell me, how can an audience be captive when they control the "delete" key? ------ Dave Hayes - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org Freedom Knight of Usenet - http://www.jetcafe.org/~dave/usenet A voice whispered to me last night. It said: "There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night!"
Dave Hayes <dave@kachina.jetcafe.org> writes:
Black Unicorn writes:
More fear from Mr. Thorn that his own time in the spotlight might be drawing to a close. God forbid his captive audience might vanish.
Tell me, how can an audience be captive when they control the "delete" key?
Not only that - the "captive" audience has announced time and again that they've killfiled me, Dale, aga, and anyone else who dares to say something they don't like. They already have the power to ignore anyone they don't want to listen to. They want to stop Dale from communicating with the _non-captive audience that chooses not to ignore him. P.S. They lie about their killfiles, of course - Ray Arachelian, Paul Bradley, et al follow up on everything posted by the people they claim to have killfiled! Their follow-ups are obsessive and repetitive: "I've *plonked* you, so I have the last word, nyah nyah". And the next day they reply to the same people they claim to be ignoring.
Dave Hayes - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org Freedom Knight of Usenet - http://www.jetcafe.org/~dave/usenet
A voice whispered to me last night. It said: "There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night!"
--- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps
Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
Dave Hayes <dave@kachina.jetcafe.org> writes:
Black Unicorn writes:
More fear from Mr. Thorn that his own time in the spotlight might be drawing to a close. God forbid his captive audience might vanish.
Tell me, how can an audience be captive when they control the "delete" key?
Not only that - the "captive" audience has announced time and again that they've killfiled me, Dale, aga, and anyone else who dares to say something they don't like. They already have the power to ignore anyone they don't want to listen to. They want to stop Dale from communicating with the _non-captive audience that chooses not to ignore him.
P.S. They lie about their killfiles, of course - Ray Arachelian, Paul Bradley, et al follow up on everything posted by the people they claim to have killfiled! Their follow-ups are obsessive and repetitive: "I've *plonked* you, so I have the last word, nyah nyah". And the next day they reply to the same people they claim to be ignoring.
Those who publically *plonk* always lie from my experiences--they are dishonest people. Most who publically killfile not only still read you but they are already obsessed with you and follow your every word--their sole goal (and this is the sad part about their lives) is to try to prevent others from reading your words. Steve
Dave Hayes - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org Freedom Knight of Usenet - http://www.jetcafe.org/~dave/usenet
A voice whispered to me last night. It said: "There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night!"
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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Stephen Boursy wrote:
Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
Dave Hayes <dave@kachina.jetcafe.org> writes:
Black Unicorn writes:
More fear from Mr. Thorn that his own time in the spotlight might be drawing to a close. God forbid his captive audience might vanish.
Tell me, how can an audience be captive when they control the "delete" key?
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P.S. They lie about their killfiles, of course - Ray Arachelian, Paul Bradley, et al follow up on everything posted by the people they claim to have killfiled! Their follow-ups are obsessive and repetitive: "I've *plonked* you, so I have the last word, nyah nyah". And the next day they reply to the same people they claim to be ignoring.
Those who publically *plonk* always lie from my experiences--they are dishonest people. Most who publically killfile not only still read you but they are already obsessed with you and follow your every word--their sole goal (and this is the sad part about their lives) is to try to prevent others from reading your words.
Steve
Not necessarily, Steve - some people plonk others by filtering their mail to a folder called "trash" or "crap-messages" or whatever, so they don't have to read them at the same time they read the rest of their messages. Then they go through the trash folder later on just to see if they threw out anything that they shouldn't have, see the messages by the people they killfiled, and reply to some of them. They HAVE plonked the person, but they can still read and reply to the plonked messages if they choose. IMO, this is a better way to killfile than redirecting everything to /dev/null, because if someone has a history of violently flaming whatever you say (like some people on this list who shall remain nameless), you don't have to read their flames at the same time with the rest of the mail, but still have the option of reading and replying to them later on if you so choose. Zach Babayco zachb@netcom.com <-------finger for PGP public key If you need to know how to set up a mail filter or defend against emailbombs, send me a message with the words "get helpfile" (without the " marks) in the SUBJECT: header, *NOT THE BODY OF THE MESSAGE!* I have several useful FAQs and documents available.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <Pine.3.89.9701091121.A2331-0100000@netcom3>, on 01/09/97 at 03:38 PM, "Z.B." <zachb@netcom.com> said:
Not necessarily, Steve - some people plonk others by filtering their mail to a folder called "trash" or "crap-messages" or whatever, so they don't have to read them at the same time they read the rest of their messages. Then they go through the trash folder later on just to see if they threw out anything that they shouldn't have, see the messages by the people they killfiled, and reply to some of them. They HAVE plonked the person, but they can still read and reply to the plonked messages if they choose.
IMO, this is a better way to killfile than redirecting everything to /dev/null, because if someone has a history of violently flaming whatever you say (like some people on this list who shall remain nameless), you don't have to read their flames at the same time with the rest of the mail, but still have the option of reading and replying to them later on if you so choose.
This is exactly how I have my twit filters set up. :) I also have max # of messages & max # of days settings for my twit folder so that messages that have stayed too long get automatically deleted. I currently have 2 different folders set up 1 for twits and 1 for anonymous posts. The twit folder is set to delete after 1 day while the anonymous posts are saved for a week. - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting WebExplorer & Java Enhanced!!! Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice Look for MR/2 Tips & Rexx Scripts Get Work Place Shell for Windows!! PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. Finger whgiii@amaranth.com for PGP Key and other info - ----------------------------------------------------------- Tag-O-Matic: Air conditioned environment - Do not open Windows. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMtV8l49Co1n+aLhhAQHc9wQApSdJ0GUyvmcDrvRu6eKW/kTh2XyrWNFZ 4yMAxX6ZU+tR/k7nyAAOhQGDZF3CxQDuLCjMYmSWAQz/cXYzmw58rDC8wo40os3+ 4Ax0Ul2yXps/YKNQIBWmiJAAn4zEf1G2SpcO87LwBYLuyPQtCs0rvP4gBmbLT9LP dm9lEdvn49o= =/2k2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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