Re: Small request for those who are tired of people like eleaticus and retchier.

From: Andy Resnick (axr67_at_op.cwru.edu)
Date: 10/25/04 

Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:04:01 -0400

Eric Gisse wrote:

>The spam has got to stop. Im sick and fucking tired of it. From now
>on, whenever the spam and abuse appears in a newsgroup I travel, a
>message gets sent to the abuse mailboxes of the requisite ISPs.
>
>I ask you guys to do the same. They have been ignored, and they stay.
>They have been ridiculed, and they stay and spam more. Now it is time
>to get the ISP to do something about it. I know it sucks to drag this
>out and get real-world consequences, but there is nothing else to do.
>
>Tired of the spam? DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
>
>
You think the spam is bad here? Been to any alt.* groups lately?

Just as there will always be poor, there will always be morons. In the
past, the morons were able to be heard by self-publishing, which posed a
slight barrier due to cost. I have a book one idiot publushed in the
'50s about his theory of electrostatics, complete with carefully
hand-drawn charts and graphs. Now, with (essentially) free internet
access, many more morons can yip and yap.

I agree, feel free to complain to the ISP. However, trying to ban
people from open forums is a bad idea. "Speaker's corner" in Hyde Park
and the eqivalent spaces here in the U.S. serve a valuable purpose.
Morons that yip and yap generally don't pick up guns, for one thing.
Free expression of ideas is an important concept. 

-- 
Andrew Resnick, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
CWRU School of Medicine
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