🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4e7sfq$oq1@kachina.jetcafe.org>,
Dave Hayes <dave@kachina.jetcafe.org> wrote:
>
>stricherz@coaps.fsu.edu (I R A Aggie) writes:
>>
>>Go get your feed from Dave Hayes. He doesn't honor cancels, not
>>even people canceling their own articles, AFAIK.
>
>Right. 
>
>>Which brings up an intersting thought: if Dave doesn't permit you
>>to delete your own property, isn't that an infringment upon one's
>>rights?
>


	The very notion that you'd view a usenet post sent out to
a potential audience of millions to quote and follow up on as 
'your own property' is extremely amusing.

				Steve


>I hardly think that 10,000 years from now, anyone is going to care
>about the particular groups of electronic patterns we call "Usenet".
>
>Really, the entire concept of property and property rights enslaves
>the average person 9 times out of 10. I suppose your concern about
>property, like most materialism, blinds you to the honor and respect
>that you refrain from bestowing upon your peers.
>
>But to be more practical, once you've posted to usenet, your posting
>is now -public- property. Cancelling messages is a privlege long since
>lost because it has been long time abused. 
>-- 
>         >>> Dave Hayes - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org <<<
>
>Nasrudin arrived at an all-comers horse race mounted on the slowest of oxen.
>Everyone laughed, an ox cannot run. 
>"But I have seen it, when it was only a calf, running faster than a horse.",
>said Nasrudin. "So why should it not run faster, now that it is larger?"