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"edward ohare" <edward_ohare@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3c4f0f02.8348929@news.alt.net...
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 15:20:11 -0000, "Dave Korn"
> <no.spam@my.mailbox.invalid> wrote:
>
> >edward ohare wrote in message <3c4d5733.439290@news.alt.net>...
>
> >>Uhhh.... yes, content is part of what they consider because the
> >>message must convey substantially the same message.  Now, and I'm
> >>laughing at this, a hipspew of irrelevant unrealated words strung
> >>together, each post substantially different in the words used, _does_
> >>convey substantially the same message, which is _there is no message_!
> >>Its all meaningless, in any sense of the definition of meaningless.
> >
> >  heh, yeh, I agree with that definition of why hashbuster is actually
all
> >the same.  in fact I'm willing to declare any post that is statistically
> >identical to noise as being noise.
>
>
> There ya go!  Its noise, pure and simple.

  Yeh, rec.poetry.modern is full of it....  <g>

> >>Unless I missed it, CC hasn't said cascades were spam.  Others have
> >>said cascades were spam.
> >
> >  he is apparently concerned that his users should cross-poast
> >"responsibly".
> >
> >  and i am informed that he has a problem with some kind of apparently
> >unholy devil-spawned accursed creation known as 'snuh'
>
>
> Yea, well last Fall, I asked Kate to explain snuh to me, and she
> instead said to take a look.  I did, and its still didn't make any
> sense.
>
> So fill me in if you're willing.
>

  Ya think it makes any sense to *me*?  Heh, Dean invented it but I'd be
willing to bet it doesn't make any sense to him either!

> >>I have a high degree of confidence that whether or not a specific
> >>cascade qualifies as spam under the concensus definition would have
> >>any effect on CC's views.
> >
> >  i can't parse that even if I assume there's a missing 'not' in there.
>
> Yea, I messed that one up.
>
> There's another post here that clarifies it.

  Yep, point taken and agreed though: the BI/spam standard is pretty much
universal;  it's up to individual NSPs if they want to run their policies
tighter, but running them looser will tend to get you filtered/blocked/UDPd
in the end.

  It does seem though that Altopia is increasingly compromising or even
abandoning the guiding principles on which it was founded.  That's a shame.

         DaveK
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