🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4107@randvax.rand.org> edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall) writes:
>Cutting off this fellow's feed, whether directly or through software mods,
>would be a dangerous precendent.  This might be one of those cases where
>we all have to put up with a bit of a nuisance for the good of the net,
>whether by our private kill files or our N keys.

I agree, but just barely.

My hesitation is because he seems to be using an automatic script to
grep for patterns and then send flames in response.  It seems to be
an effort to supress speech on his part: to harrass people into silence.
For each mention of Armenia vs the Turks, he posts about three semi-automatic
postings consisting mainly of text that has been posted before.  The
goal appears to be to get others to shut up, not to make a point, because
it's basically the same exact text reposted again and again.

I think that with only one person doing it, kill files are a reasonable
solution for now (which is why I agree just barely).  But what happens
when there are twenty people doing it, with half of them on complete
auto-pilot?  What happens when the auto-posting programs start going into
positive feedback against each other?  (Have I predicted the death of the
net yet? :-)





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