🚀 go-pugleaf

     The huge number of flame wars (mtn. bikes, libertarianism) on this
newsgroup certainly have a consequence: to make it more difficult for
activists who are seeking to protect California's environment to find,
communicate, and work with one another.

     This consequence - the near-wrecking of ca.environment for
grass-roots activism - may not be intended.  On the other hand, given the
violence and intimidation used against timber activists in the West this
year, and the success of wall.events in mobilizing the oppostion to
"salvage" logging in Oregon, maybe the sabotage this group are the goal of
the individuals who maintain the flame wars or include transparently
provocative posts to ca.environment (like the libertarian big lie) with
cross-posts to reactionary groups (alt.fan.rush-limberger, in the case of
the libertarian bs and its fascist author).

     If disruption is the goal of such posts, genuine environmentalists
can protect their work by:

(1) kill filters for repeat authors/topics of flame wars;

(2) avoiding the temptation to respond...

(3) creative use of the net's technical shortcomings in messages with
corrupted routing information.  In other words, the administrators of
private systems tend to dislike users whose activities cause others to jam
the server (in the way that corrupted routing info may do).  This 
solution should not be attempted by those who lack the technical/legal
knowledge to carry this out successfully, and is included here solely to
foster discussion...NOT to incite an illegal act.