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scotta@maine.rr.com (Scott Ashley) wrote:
>
>Nor do I.  What I do have a problem with is the growing lynch-mob
>mentality that seems to be becoming oh so prevalent in nana*.

Individual people overreacting does not a lynch-mob make.  There will
always be individuals who will propose wild reactions to perceived
problems.  You seem to be accepting these individuals as the voice of
nan-a.*, which they most certainly are not.  They are saying, "I see a
problem."  How well they state their case, and how well respondents
answer their claims, is what moves the consensus.

>  I saw a
>post just yesterday where someone was comparing rr.com, Time Warner's
>cable modem service, to webtv!

So?  What makes the producers of cartoons capable of selecting their
users for greater cluefulness?  

>  I've seen others where calling alt.net
>"rogue" was entirely based on the fact that the poster disagreed with
>some of Altopia's users.  

Yep.  One person was saying that, AFAIR.  I was going to ignore it.
The responses from Altopia users, however, have changed my mind.  I am
now thinking of Altopia in terms of being "semi-rogue", where before,
I simply thought them to be "weird".  It's the "reasonable" Altopia
users and the posting of Altopia's policy statement that have brought
me to this decision, not anything said against Altopia by a single
person complaining about harassment.

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>I would like to think of myself as reasonable and rational. <g>  I
>HAVE kept my mouth shut so far, but when I see someone going ahead
>with their own UDP of Altopia I had to say something about why I think
>their move is a foolish one.  I'm against abuse, but draw the line at
>a UDP of an entire domain because a few are causing trouble.  It would
>be nice to see a public statement from Altopia.  I don't imagine it
>will happen though.

Well, when the domain does nothing to allow people to filter out
individual users (like having any consistent header information), then
there is no other way to stop those few who are causing trouble.

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