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Now, I've seen it personally.
Never mind that the Internet is a self-healing network that will reroute
transparently around a malfunctionning node.
Never mind that North America is based on the principle that one knows best
that is good or bad for one, and one doesn't want anybody else to decide it
for him.
The malfunctioning node is a censoring node, and to reroute around it, one
will only have to "post to a different address".
And somebody decided that somebody else was bad for everybody.
If 30% of the people unsubscribed from the list because of someone's
postings, it shows one thing first and foremost: the 30% of those people
don't know what a killfile is.
The killfile, gentlemen, allows ONE to decide for HIMSELF whether something
is good or bad. Period.
This is an open list, if I'm not mistaken. When I joined, nobody asked me
who I was and if I knew more than a respectable minimum about the
subject(like the rail signalling list I subscribe to). Then, nobody told me
that my articles would be scrutinized then approved for posting.
Furthermore, nobody told me that if I grossly misbehaved, I'd simply be
locked-out of the list.
I feel cheated.
I feel cheated of obtaining the critical little bit of information I will
overlook for a totally unthought situation. Information is the name of the
game, especially in diving, where your ass is on the line, and even more in
rail signalling where hundreds of asses are on the line.
If one can't cope with the information, no matter how strokish-looking, one
can shield himself from it, learn to cope with it or flame back. But one
should not assume that *HE* should shield everyone from it.
That's the whole idea between killfiles.
And the best way of safeguarding free-speech.
Don't ever forget: the anti-Gorbatchev coup was nixed with a lot of help
from the Internet. It changed the face of the world. It did not change much
for Tienanmen square, but hopefully, this was for THE LAST time only.
Here, it may only change one ass. Which is definitely not one too much.
Mr. Irvine, forget "UXMA73A@pr*.co*". Be smarter than the list droid,
route around the defective node, come back in from another door.
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I prefer to give a bit of my liberty to an elected government
rather than to unaccountable corporations.
* Marc Dufour * [\] ACUC 6 31874 * http://WWW.CAM.ORG/~mdufour *
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