Re: New entry for PBM List: I changed my socks today

From: skrenta@rt.com (Rich Skrenta)

Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Phil Shulkind <phil@phildee.demon.co.uk> writes:
> I am absolutely certain that if
> Greg did nothing to intervene in people's postings there would be no tidal
> wave of commercial postings to this newsgroup.

You obviously have not watched useful discussion forums degenerate into
dumping grounds for junk and spam.  I have.  Go take a look at
misc.jobs.misc or misc.entreprepreneurs; those were once good groups.

Despite the small group of whiners who want to flaunt the accepted
posting guidelines, I still like this group, and would be saddened
to see it ruined.

> Let's get one thing absolutely clear - if I wanted to post hype-ridden
> advertisments anywhere I'd just post them here, and there would be
> nothing anyone, not even Greg Lindahl, could do about it.

This, I believe, captures the essence of your attitude.

There are actually several things that could be done in response
to a malicious spammer.

Steve Pritchard <Steve@spelbind.demon.co.uk> writes:
> I've kept out of this up until now, but you have
> no real right to start trying to censor anyone - this newsgroup is
> public access and provided nothing offensive is put here, then it's
> down to people to read what they want and ignore the rest.

Greg has every bit as much right to flame you and send mail to your
postmaster as you do to post whatever you want.  Welcome to Usenet.

References

Re: New entry for PBM List: I changed my socks today
Steve Pritchard <Steve@spelbind.demon.co.uk>
Wed, 16 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000

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Re: New entry for PBM List: I changed my socks today
Steve Pritchard <Steve@spelbind.demon.co.uk>
Wed, 16 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000