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- From: greeny@top.cis.syr.edu (J. S. Greenfield)
- Subject: kill files and pointy heads (was Re: PORTLAND: American Front...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.195130.14673@newstand.syr.edu>
- Organization: Syracuse University, CIS Dept.
- References: <1992Dec15.004328.23916@oracle.us.oracle.com> <1992Dec16.151209.17607@newstand.syr.edu> <1992Dec27.234117.4806@oracle.us.oracle.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 19:51:30 EST
- Lines: 70
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- In article <1992Dec27.234117.4806@oracle.us.oracle.com> rchilder@us.oracle.com (Richard Childers) writes:
- >
- >>I've many times told people both how to use kill files, general, and how
- >>to kill b-cpu posts, in particular. Can you please explain what's
- >>wrong with this?
- >
- >Nothing wrong with the former, but I _do_ think there's something wrong
- >with the latter, unless an individual has specifically asked you for this
- >information.
- >
- >
- >>Please explain how teaching someone how to kill b-cpu posts is censorship.
- >
- >Because you are targeting, in an organized fashion, one particular party in
- >pursuit of your own special agenda ... and this can be used as justification
- >for others to do the same for _their_ reasons, in the future.
-
- Justification?? What nonsense are you talking about. If I post
-
- --If you don't want to read the junk coming from b-cpu, you can just add
- --
- -- /b-cpu/h :j
- --
- --to your kill file to kill all articles in which "b-cpu" appears in the
- --header.
-
- then who is being hurt?
-
- I'm spreading some basic information, that I expect to be of interest to
- a number of people.
-
- Nobody is *forced* to add the line to their kill file, and nobody is prevented
- from posting their material.
-
- If you tell people to put /greeny/h :j into their kill file, that's fine too.
- Those who don't want to read my posts, won't have to bother junking them
- manually.
-
-
- >Believe me, enough people have been disgusted by B-CPU to _want_ to learn how
- >to use killfiles, as repugnant as the concept is to many. It seems to me that
- >y'all don't know how to wait and let the consensus _form_, you have to try to
- >_force_ a consensus ... and that hurts everyone in the long run.
-
- Sorry. There's no question in my mind that, when b-cpu was last flooding
- alt.censorship [where I happened to find them] with its posts, there *was*
- a consensus, and many people were interested in this information.
-
- But regardless, the fact that there was a consensus has nothing to do with
- it. Since we are talking about an *individual* choice that each *individual*
- makes for himself, it doesn't matter one iota what the hell anybody else
- thinks.
-
- The fact that I kill all b-cpu posts does not affect *anybody* else in any
- manner such that they should have say as to whether or not I may do so.
-
-
-
- >>Your statements just don't make any sense.
- >
- >Wait a few years. Maybe you'll see my point.
-
- I don't think so, unless you mean the one on your head... :)
-
-
- --
- J. S. Greenfield greeny@top.cis.syr.edu
- (I like to put 'greeny' here,
- but my d*mn system wants a
- *real* name!) "What's the difference between an orange?"
-