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- From: wyang@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William D. Yang)
- Subject: Taking kill files too seriously (was Re: Killefiles [...])
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:47:37 GMT
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- Hmmm. I, personally, think I can handle killfiles, mostly because
- they're not censorship in any form! See, a killfile has to do with an
- individual -- a specific individual, namely the reader who sets it up.
- What that reader is saying is that they don't want to read certain
- types of information. That's similar to saying "I'll go to the party,
- but I won't watch the 'Texas Chainsaw Breast and Body Part Store
- section Eighty Four ... the Return' since I find that it disturbs me."
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- A kill file is like going to a party and finding a conversation you
- like, and ignoring a conversation you don't. We do it every day in
- our "real" lives; why shouldn't we when we're reading things online?
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- Also (short-shameless-confession), given the rather huge quanity of
- posts to many newsgroups, a.c included, it's unreasonable to read
- everything. So junk what you don't want to read; kill threads... and
- even user-ID's... if you want. It's cool, because it's ONLY about
- controlling what one's self experiences.
-
- My defense of killfiles over, I'll have to go back to lurking. I've
- got a bit more metalogical theory to go over tonight... <shudder!>
-
- -Bill (semi-demi-quasi-pseudo lurker@large).
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