Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:45:05 12/21/98
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On December 21, 1998 at 14:26:06, Dann Corbit wrote: [snip] >Forwarding personal email is of questionable legality. The original composer >owns copyright on the material. In lieu of forwarded email, why don't you just ask people to send you their opinons via email. Personally, I *hoped* that Sean would turn a new leaf. There have been flashes of responsibility out of him (for instance in KKUP 2, he provided moves for CM5500 on a timely basis). On the other hand, his general conduct is purely disruptive. There are a number of different sorts of net pests. You have pure cranks like Archimedes Plutonium and Allen C Goodrich in sci.math. You have what I classify as vandals (Scott Nudds in comp.lang.c and Sean Evans in rec.games.chess.computers are examples -- they may be responsible elsewhere but in those forums they only exist to disrupt). I have never seen any net crank reform. Not ever. One can always hope, but I think peace and tranquility cannot be maintained when one or two persons are allowed to pollute unchecked. It is quite amazing how one or two disturbed individuals can cause such a ruckus, when thousands of well meaning persons cause hardly a stir. On usenet, I have a killfile with hundreds of entries (I'm obviously not very tolerant of irritation). Even with killfiles, you can never filter out all the crud. You will see it when you read a follow-up by someone you respect. You will see it again when the irritants get a fake or new account. I have even gone to the step of killfiling an entire domain, just because I found certain posters that annoying. The most amazing thing of all is that these terrorists always see themselves as champions of the people. [ But don't poke fun at them, that's the exact point where the absolutely free speach has somehow lost it's value ;-) ]
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