Re: netiquette argument of the month

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On 7/12/10 5:32 AM, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote:
> I find it very interesting that the supposedly most "liberal" people in
> general are the ones most ready to take offense at, and attempt to
> censor, the speech of others.

I am not taking sides in the argument you have with rsk, I like you both.

Regardless, what you describe I call "Fascist Liberals", who will accept 
any opinion as long as it's their own liberal one.




> I was on the Internet (OK, it was NSFNET) in 1981. It's why I'm tomb,
> because there was already a tom @ the RDS computer society.
>
> Back then, minimizing traffic, text only, and all the things Rich and
> Mouse argue for made sense. They even made sense when we started to let
> the AOLamers on in the early 90s. Now, they really don't. You have ample
> processing power at your disposal to filter and categorize at will. If
> your mailer or mail client is too dumb to know an identical post sent TO
> you and to a list you subscribe to should only show up once, you really
> should get another mail client.
>
> SPAM is one thing: it's abuse of your paid for resources for the
> economic gain of another.
>
> These holy wars about keeping the net as it once was are pure Luddism, a
> trait often found in those who call themselves (but are actually the
> antithesis of) "liberal".
>
> Laissez faire.
>
> Rich is free to bin my mail, but he is in violation of the RFCs with his
> response code.
>
> IF he chooses to use his mailer to insult his senders, he should send a
> 571, with at least an actual sentence about WHY, not some lame comment
> about the sender.
>
> The better option is to silently send me to /dev/null, what we used to
> call "twitting", before some n00b born after the 'net made that a
> business.


-- 
Gadi Evron,
ge () linuxbox org.

Blog: http://gevron.livejournal.com/
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