[[Reply-To: john.nieder@tigerteam.org]] * Reply to msg originally in TlkPolGuns -=> Quoting Joe@freemansoft.com to All <=-

-=> Quoting John Nieder <=-

Secondly, a lot of folks do not feel easy about posting to ANY gun-related list or group because of employer, social or other prejudice to which they may be subjected. If a joe.victim@anti-gun.widget.com wants to use a simple remailer for putting a little shade on his participation, I don't feel it's anyone else's business; "caution is not cowardice and carelessness is not courage." More importantly, it's nobody else's _problem_ as long as the content of the post is not objectionable.

Jo> So censorship is allowable if the post is objectionable? I didn't say that, nor mean it. All I said was that there isn't a _problem_ unless it's in the content, just as with any other message in a newsgroup. The fact that a remailer is used in itself doesn't create a problem in its posting of an otherwise benign message. See? Jo> Wouldn't Jo> that mean the moderator has to make more subjective judgements? I don't know, but if he was killing messages, he'd at least have to have a reason. Someone's address isn't one. The moderator in question here (rec.guns) subjectively censors my messages because of content, if that's your point. Jo> How Jo> long would it be before someone started yelling "outst the moderator" Jo> due to "subjective rejection criterea"? Well, I for one already am. Rejection of otherwise benign technical posts for no other reason than having been gated through a remailer, even non-anonymously with Reply-To: fields and sigs, is about as subjective and arbitrary a rejection criterion as I can personally imagine, especially in view of all the absolutely junk posts that do pass muster. Jo> I assume that some of this Jo> is with reguards to rec.guns. Most of it, yes, at the moment. Jo> The moderator there does an excellent Jo> job even if a little too much political stuff occasionally creeps in. Particularly his irrational fear of remailered posts. Pure politics. |%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%| | <john.nieder@tigerteam.org> * CP2A * PGP Key # E27937 on all servers | |-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=| |"If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude | | better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in | | peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the | | hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may | |posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams, 1776| |=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-| |BOYCOTT: Pepsico <KFC - Taco Bell - Frito-Lay - Pepsi-Cola> & Gillette| |%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%|