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- From: daq@fc.hp.com (Doug Quarnstrom)
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- Subject: Re: Taking kill files too seriously (was Re: Killefiles [...])
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 22:53:33 GMT
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- William D. Yang (wyang@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) wrote:
- : 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."
-
- Making the statement public contains rhetorical information that
- transcends the simple act.
-
- :
- : 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?
-
- If you went to a party, interrupted a conversation, and said, "I
- am going to ignore you now, because I do not want to listen", you
- would be considered rude, at best. This is not necessarily what
- happened here, but I merely reinforce the idea that there is
- a difference between simply ignoring and making a public statment
- about the fact.
-
- :
- : 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.
-
- I never use kill files. I simply ignore most of it.
-
- doug
-