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- From: jbuck@messier.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck)
- Newsgroups: news.admin.policy
- Subject: Re: Serdar Argic (was Re: Meanwhile, back at news.admin.policy)
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 04:31:29 GMT
- Organization: U. C. Berkeley
- Lines: 29
- Message-ID: <1h8q31INN7v0@agate.berkeley.edu>
- References: <1gnbq0INN6d3@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <BzMK1z.J21@portal.hq.videocart.com> <4107@randvax.rand.org>
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- In article <4107@randvax.rand.org> edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall) writes:
- >Cutting off this fellow's feed, whether directly or through software mods,
- >would be a dangerous precendent. This might be one of those cases where
- >we all have to put up with a bit of a nuisance for the good of the net,
- >whether by our private kill files or our N keys.
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- I agree, but just barely.
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- My hesitation is because he seems to be using an automatic script to
- grep for patterns and then send flames in response. It seems to be
- an effort to supress speech on his part: to harrass people into silence.
- For each mention of Armenia vs the Turks, he posts about three semi-automatic
- postings consisting mainly of text that has been posted before. The
- goal appears to be to get others to shut up, not to make a point, because
- it's basically the same exact text reposted again and again.
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- I think that with only one person doing it, kill files are a reasonable
- solution for now (which is why I agree just barely). But what happens
- when there are twenty people doing it, with half of them on complete
- auto-pilot? What happens when the auto-posting programs start going into
- positive feedback against each other? (Have I predicted the death of the
- net yet? :-)
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- Joe Buck jbuck@ohm.berkeley.edu
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