FUCK GRIFFIN BOYCE And yet ANOTHER NET.LOON Candidate Re: Earlier Detweiler ravings!!
Bill Stewart
bill.stewart at pobox.com
Wed Jan 8 17:12:48 PST 2014
It's not a real Usenet flame war until there's been a spelling flame or two*.
"UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of
this IMPORTANT information is ENCOURAGED".
At 10:03 AM 1/8/2014, Griffin Boyce wrote:
>On 2014-01-08 12:59, shelley at misanthropia.info wrote:
>>On Jan 8, 2014 9:48 AM, Patrick Mylund Nielsen
>><cryptography at patrickmylund.com> wrote:
>>(snip)
>>
>>>>You should spend some of that energy on learning not to top-post.
>>Ah, there it is.
>>*Now* it feels like authentic usenet.
>
> Maybe we should have a hundred-message thread fighting about top
> vs bottom ;)
And Detweiler and Sternlight were useful practice.
Detweiler had a few serious points, but also gave us the insight that
killfiles weren't just for Usenet any more; we needed to develop
email filtering to deal with spammers* and other undesirable noise sources.
Sternlight was one of the early advocates of building censorship into
everything. They haven't gone away, and the UK's Tory-LibDem
coalition just forced the major British ISPs to make heavy-duty
censorship the default behaviour, though if you want to access
suspicious sites like the EFF and BoingBoing you can tell the ISP to
allow you to endanger your children by letting your internet access
like access all the nasty internet p0rn.
(* One of the few good things about spam was that "how do we stop
spam" replaced "libertarians vs. socialists" as the default topic
that all discussions rapidly devolve into.)
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