On 7/12/10 5:32 AM, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: > I find it very interesting that the supposedly most "liberal" people in > general are the ones most ready to take offense at, and attempt to > censor, the speech of others.
I am not taking sides in the argument you have with rsk, I like you both. Regardless, what you describe I call "Fascist Liberals", who will accept any opinion as long as it's their own liberal one. > > I was on the Internet (OK, it was NSFNET) in 1981. It's why I'm tomb, > because there was already a tom @ the RDS computer society. > > Back then, minimizing traffic, text only, and all the things Rich and > Mouse argue for made sense. They even made sense when we started to let > the AOLamers on in the early 90s. Now, they really don't. You have ample > processing power at your disposal to filter and categorize at will. If > your mailer or mail client is too dumb to know an identical post sent TO > you and to a list you subscribe to should only show up once, you really > should get another mail client. > > SPAM is one thing: it's abuse of your paid for resources for the > economic gain of another. > > These holy wars about keeping the net as it once was are pure Luddism, a > trait often found in those who call themselves (but are actually the > antithesis of) "liberal". > > Laissez faire. > > Rich is free to bin my mail, but he is in violation of the RFCs with his > response code. > > IF he chooses to use his mailer to insult his senders, he should send a > 571, with at least an actual sentence about WHY, not some lame comment > about the sender. > > The better option is to silently send me to /dev/null, what we used to > call "twitting", before some n00b born after the 'net made that a > business. > > > -- Gadi Evron, [email protected]. Blog: http://gevron.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
