Folks who have watched USENET for any appreciable length of time know that reason is not highly prized there. Volume is.

The self-apponted gods of the net can't stop us, they can only bitch about us. Let them.

This is no different than any other USENET issue. The only way to win is not to play.

I have been trying to do that. But... Unfortunately they *can* stop a lot of us. Let's take anon.penet.fi as an example. A poor 386 box playing sitting duck for anyone who really wants to flood it (and Karl Kleinpaste, among others, has spoken about doing this on news.admin.policy). The other thing is that in some official circles news.admin.policy is regarded as some kind of semi-authority. If that group reaches a consensus to ban anon postings I would get hassled by at least the academic network in Finland, for "causing Finland a bad name on international networks". It wouldn't stop me, but might make my life a bit unconfortable. And it has managed to stop almost every anonymous posting service to date. Julf