-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/11/2016 07:53 PM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
On 12/11/2016 06:46 PM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:
Z.,
** DO _NOT_ DARE TO TALK ANY SH*T ABOUT AARON. **
Agreed, this is a pretty egregious deviation from standards of basic decency. Even the most liberal of moderators would probably not let a list subscriber get away with this; that's exactly why this list needs some kind of moderation. (NOT censorship, moderation.)
Once upon a time, USENET was a Thing. Moderation a.k.a. "censorship all right thinking people endorse" was impossible for technical reasons. That did not matter much at first, but then came Eternal September and the waves of clueless lusers, followed fast by spammers looking to fleece the lusers. At once, the Flame Warriors rose up and successfully defended the more sophisticated newsgroups from drowning in a rising tide of trash. Then the "real Internet" overshadowed USENET, and even the Ents who were old when the networks were young went West. USENET's infrastructure was colonized, unopposed, by commercial data piracy services. If CPunks can not survive a minor influx of weak minded wannabes brought here by a "hactivist" fashion trend without resort to censorship, it does not deserve to live. Where are our Flame Warriors? Has the sword that was broken been forgotten and lost, or can it be made whole again? Pending the verdict of history, I would encourage users who know what they don't want to see here to publish lists of addresses recommended for filtering. Explaining the criteria that qualify subscribers for the killfiles provided, along with pleas that a Moderator apply these criteria to silence all unworthy voices, may provide some amusement. In this day and age, "wasted bandwidth" in a list that does not forward binary attachments is Not A Thing. Those who can't stand the clutter can killfile non-contributing posters at will. Those who can't figure out how to do that or think "it's too haaaard" don't matter because they don't qualify as "technically competent" and don't belong here anyway, amirite? :o) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJYTigwAAoJEECU6c5Xzmuq+oEH/i0VZBaZmHtuN7YyqHLJk5Tg YTAv3z5pAZz4A3oqUW34O0lTCe+yPBSkdZVu5bA9p+0XEplB6lmX6YWWYxLPhqao s4mEef0/6qrEPHRhUx5rZ7NqC2fv9YSiqW2hFqgBaULbw8ec39Nv/ZYMNMeU8vz/ rnEKr3FpNYcIhOc4Kyo6plYzrt9uGo+ehTpxQCxWkoos6a44ZSdOJMQAMlGkNIIk MbPY6Q0aLXJULU2OT/amuPoEJCgimz6PjiJryV8xuSccSJwYzwfLdcfIxM6TwNwd qSGO8bd/kipxYHmUIbZTNKlwPdIISgxEfern9BXPJECplbZ9OgOQk44kA8oAxME= =Fhqg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----