> But IN ANY CASE it is only a few days since I asked people not to start
new
> threads on the CrashList because of the technical problems we have had
> associated with the bankruptcy of the network provider. Most people have
> respected our request. Why am I not surprised at the way our request has
been
> simply ignored by the Milosevic supporters?
>
> So this is a warning: any more spamming of the list will result in the
> ejection of those responsible.
>
> Mark
Hear Hear. Amen, and d'Accord.
I have never actually seen any interaction between Crashlist members and
those spamming the list with the Yugo issue, except for a short thread about
DU ammo. After having waded though more of the Yugo broadsides than is
healthy, I am of the opinion that the issue of the "Crash" is something that
these spammers are neither conscious of nor find particularly important.
These guys have their transmitters broadcasting at full power, but their
receivers are definitely turned off. Why should we tolerate them?
Is the Yugoslavian issue important? Yes.
Is the fate of Milosovic important? Perhaps.
Is Crashlist the proper billboard upon which to paste further broadsides?
No.
Are there more appropriate forums for the Yugoslavian discussion? Yes.
It is obvious the Crash issues are not something that the "Milosovic
supporters" will discuss responsibly: and the last time I checked we were
here to promote a responsible discussion of the Crash issues. Should these
spammers summon enough interest to tie their propaganda to the Crash, I
suppose we should tolerate some further hospitality toward them.
(hospitality they definitely don't extend on their own lists, btw.) However
I get the distinct impression that Crashlist is just identified as one more
Marxist-and-therefore-sympathetic forum for Milosovic propaganda when the
spammers fill in the address line and hit the send button.
We have editorial tools to filter out inappropriate posts, Mark, and I
formally request that they be used in this case, and that the spammers be
put on notice that at the very least messages to the Crashlist should be
relevant, and not just shotgunned propaganda sent to a batch of lists.
For my part, what small moderating I do of messages will now be exercised to
reject this spam.
Tom
"It is certain that capitalism will collapse, that hundreds of millions and
undoubtedly, billions, will die. No-one who fails to make these facts the
basis and guiding compass of their politics, has any right even to claim
that
they have a politics." -- Mark Jones
"I am through learning one more new language to yell 'the Sky is Falling'
one more time at one more motherfucker who demands to hear it his way. Fuck
'em, let 'em freeze to death, thirsty, glowing in the dark." --- the Truth
from me
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