In
<cae1xxdhzl9eanjy3fwdv8i9q8d-hncq1m5czwojgia+ekiu...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 09/25/2013
at 04:27 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:
>He has a right to post here,
Like the rest of us, he has been granted the privilege of posting
here; UA can extend or retract their permission whether we agree or
not. None of us has a right to post here absent consent from UA.
>and we cannot anyway stop him from doing
>so without using obnoxiously repressive machinery.
We can certainly configure our software to drop his posts unseen
without any repressive measures. Further, forcing UA to carry traffic
that they don't wish to would be oppressive.
Note that I am not taking a position on whether you or UA should drop
his messages, just that you and they have the right to do so should
you choose.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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