Re: Idiot spam attack on sci.lang

On Jan 24, 5:07 pm, "benli...@xxxxxxxxxx" <benli...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 25, 6:34 am, mb <azyth...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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And what exactly are you gonna do about that, and how?

When have you been appointed judge and censor of what is allowed and
what not?
Since when has Google, or anyone, a right to censor anything?

The idea of defending this sporge-flooder on some sort of free speech
grounds seems totally misguided.

It's not that anyone can defend what one sporger or worse one Maharaj
does.

The sporger has no opinions or ideas
to express. He is trying to prevent such expression.

It's just that it's impossible to defend censoring anything. It's not
about free speech but the inviolability of speech. Now you invent a
necessity for ideas. Someone else will invent a need for artistic
content and in no time a fuckin Justice will reinvent a need for not
disagreeing with him.

Go get a provider who you'll pay to screen out what you don't like and
leave the rest of the people alone.

That sounds like a fine idea. And certainly many people in discussions
like this talk as if they had some setup by means of which they did
not have to view any of this. But for technically unsophisticated home
users, it is not such a simple matter.
I have no idea what providers
might exist within my area who would screen out such stuff, or how I
would define "what I don't like" so that they could screen it. Some
practical advice (without condescension or abuse if possible) would be
welcome.

Fine. Do like me, I'm on Google groups. Don't open what you don't want
to.


Looking on both Google Groups and Netscape, it appears to me as if the
post to which I am replying, and its  immediate followup, were the
last legitimate sci.lang posts to appear.


That was more than six hours
ago. Meanwhile 200 or so pseudo-threads have been posted, almost all
sporge. Have those more fortunately positioned seen the same? At this
rate, it is hardly worth anyone's time to pick through all the crap to
find real discussions.

Sporge threads are almost immediately identified.

Yet I do not like the idea of sci.lang or any
other group being destroyed by this sociopath.

He's not the real problem. Look at the Hindoo-nazis and the
overwhelming sci-fi-linguistics (to whom we all more or less respond).
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