Re: Crapola Deluxe at Verizon

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From: John Gilmer
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 21:43

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"Tiny Human Ferret" <klaatu@clark.net> wrote in message
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> John Gilmer wrote:
> >
> > > thereby destroying the usefulness of usenet. Nobody in his right
> > > mind posts with his own naked address any more!
> > >
> >
> > There are two models of usenet:
> >
> > The first model is that of a quality newspaper "letters" page in which
> > people express their thoughts on recent events and other items of
interest
> > and SIGN their REAL names.
> >
> > The second model is that of a dirty "restroom" in an X rated theatre.
> > "People" just write what they please and insult whom they please.
> >
> > You obviously prefer the second model!
>
> You forgot the third mode: where people use anonymity or aliases so that
> they may make needed political commentary without being identified and
> assassinated (or merely made miserable) by those Powers That Be who are
> rightly derided.

Nope!

Your "third mode" is merely a sub-category of my second model.   Not
everything on the wall of a public toilet stall is "crap!"

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