Re: Re:"GO phUCK A REFRIGERATOR"

From: Wild Bill (kwag98_at_usachoice.net)
Date: 06/13/04 

Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 21:22:15 -0400

The only possible solution is to become a net cop, and trace/track the
source of this type of worthless crap, then report it to the source server
admin.
I don't personally know that this action has any effect, but numerous folks
spend a lot of time (or waste it, depending on how you look at it) reporting
these types of posts.

If it's children doing it (as it's definitely childish behavior), then you
might expect that parents should be aware of, and not approve of what
they're doing.. but those expectations may not be realistic.
I just don't read anything with a similar subject line.. and I haven't read
this one.
The general attitude of most folks on usenet is to just ignore these
behaviors, and without attention, the authors will simply go elsewhere.

I consider this newsgroup to be one of the most valuable online resources
that exists. I admire the amount of time that Sam and the many intelligent
participants exert to uphold the quality and high standard of free
information.

My personal opinion is that each individual should use their own filters.
The limiting of our basic liberty of free speech isn't a wise solution.
I've just recently revisited SER, and in the several years that I followed
it daily, I don't remember all that many trash posts, but I completely agree
that this isn't an appropriate forum for such crap.

Cheers
WB
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"JURB6006" <jurb6006@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20040612182903.02177.00001197@mb-m28.aol.com...
> This is a newsgroup. I have no idea who runs the place, but I appreciate
it's
> existence. What I don't understand is that there isn't a simple filter to
dump
> posts containing the word ***, for example. There could be a simple word
list,
> which should be posted from time to time such as the repairfaq pointer.
>
> I understand this group is unmoderated (or it appears so with posts like
that),
> but this could be a simple automated process. I was interested in
electronics
> at 8 years old, and had we computers and internet, , , , , , what could
happen.
>
> Now in my personal life, there are times I'm quite the pottymouth in my
own
> home, or certain other places. In public I tend to clean it up, although I
slip
> sometimes.
>
> If I was a young person, living in, say a Christian home where this kind
of
> language is not tolerated, my parent could walk up on me and be horrified
and
> cut me off, or the ISP or filters on the PC might block all access to SER,
or
> maybe all newsgroups.
>
> I don't think this serves any of our interests.
>
> Am I off base here, or is it that I'm alright but the world is all wrong
> (present company excluded) ?
>
> JURB