Re: Henry Spencer - Any Word?

On Mar 2, 9:14 pm, OM <om@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 07:34:48 -0800 (PST), Alex Terrell

<alexterr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
but without moderation, usenet is descending into complete dross.

...The problem isn't moderation, it's that ISPs and USPs aren't
listening to complaints about scumbags any more than they are about
spammers. Asswipes like Guthball, ElfNazi, the Maxson Trash, and even

If those same ISP were listening to complaints, then they'd have to
hear the ones about you as well. How you think you're somehow above
the fray given your vile posts is astounding.

Alan Erskine - who I see has managed to escape from everyone's
killfile *again!* - would have been quickly had their posting privs
yanked from them back in the 80's. Hell, Spaf banned Tim Maroney for
*life* over his harassment of those who didn't show some semblance of
tolerance for his satanic beliefs(*); these days, you've got to shut
down the backbone at least *twice* before anyone will take any sort of
action. Either that, or post kiddie porn.

...What changed all that were two USPs - Portal and CUNY/CCNY. Portal
was the first non-educational USP that allowed users to pay for
access, and refused to kick anyone off unless they did something
*REALLY* bad - and spamming wasn't considered a TOS violation for
several years by Portal's rules. CUNY/CCNY had a policy of refusing no
student access, nor removing said unless they were caught doing
someting feloneous. Flaming people and spamming were not considered
feloneous. Those two USPs allowed trolling trash the first carte
blanche they'd ever seen, and in the case of Portal most USPs and a
lot of ISPs have followed the same Golden Rule - whoever's got the
Gold to help pay the costs and keep food on your table, makes the
Rules.

Yep, that is how your blog still manages to be on the net as well.
Imagine that!


(*) Of course, Tim's found out whether he was right by now...

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