From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.misc,alt.censorship,news.admin.censorship,alt.fnord Subject: Re: Censorship from panix.com Was:Re: My errors Date: 28 Jan 1996 23:45:35 GMT NetNews Citation for news.* (issued by The Cabal) [x] Claiming there's a Usenet Cabal [ ] ...and doing so to a poor newbie [x] ...as a joke [x] ...and apparently beleiving it [x] Being, supporting, applauding, or agreeing with a member of the Usenet Cabal [x] Yawping about free speech [x] ...and mentioning ownership of the press [x] ...and mentioning ownership of your server [x] ...and mentioning netiquitte [x] ...and mentioning your standard of appropriateness [x] ...and mentioning how much you pay for news [ ] ...and mentioning the US Constitution [ ] ...and claiming that Usenet is a US network [x] Yawping about control freaks [x] ...and how you are trying to save the net [ ] ...combined with one of the following names: [ ] Dave Lawrence [ ] Dave Ratcliff [ ] Tim Skirvin [ ] Peter da Silva [x] Jay Maynard [x] Attempting to speak for someone else on the net [ ] Bullying a poor newbie [ ] ...into submission [ ] ...off of the Net [ ] ...into abusing the net [ ] ...about crossposting [ ] ...about spamming [ ] ...with things you wouldn't DARE touch an old-timer with [ ] ...and mailing his postmaster [ ] Being the last straw that drives a useful resource off the net [x] Pronouncing Judgement on another net citizen [ ] ...and not investigating properly first [ ] ...and not realizing that you have no way to verify things [ ] ...and being a news admin [x] ...over something you do yourself [x] ...in this message [x] Failing to ignore: [x] ...a posting you yourself claim is worthless [x] ...a newsgroup you yourself claim is worthless [x] ...a network you yourself claim is worthless [ ] ...an anonymous post that you claim is worthless [ ] ...an anonymous post when you have sworn up and down before God and Country that all anonymous posting is worthless regardless of content [x] ...articles from: [x] Any member of the Cabal [ ] Any Usenet Kook, Loon, Whiny, or Dickhead [ ] Dave Hayes [ ] ...an obvious forgery [x] ...a troll [ ] ...spam or velveeta [ ] ...control messages you didn't like [ ] Failing to have a newsreader that [ ] ...presents articles on a menu for selection [ ] ...consolidates subject [ ] ...has threads [ ] ...has killfiles [ ] ...has a 'next message' key [ ] ...and worse, failing to USE the damn thing [ ] ...supports [ ] ...standard quoting [ ] ...standard line length [ ] ...follows [ ] RFC822 [ ] RFC1036 [ ] son-of-1036 [ ] the good netkeeping seal of approval [x] Failing to configure your news server to: [x] ...possess enough disk space for your newsspool [x] ... forever [ ] ... and you carry news.* [ ] ... and you carry alt.* [ ] ... and you carry alt.binaries.* [ ] ...possess enough inodes on your newsspool partition [ ] ... and you newgroup everything [ ] ...locate the history and log files on a different from the newsspool [ ] ...ignore cancel messages [x] ...honor NCM messages [x] ...honor spamcancel/cyberspam/spewcancel [ ] ...ignore sendsys messages [ ] ...ignore rmgroup messages [ ] ...honor all newgroup messages [ ] ...use a properly configured network connection [ ] ...ignore badly formed newgroup messages [x] Refusing to understand how Usenet works [x] ...after it's been explained to you [x] ...multiple times [x] Failing to have in one's possession: [x] ...a clue [x] ...about the lack of uniformity in the human race [ ] ...about the ancient newsreader you are using [x] ...about news transport software [x] ...as it actually exists [x] ...as it is actually used [ ] ...about true honor [ ] ...about life and living [x] ...respect for differing points of view [ ] ...the technical expertise to run a news server [x] Holding forth on: [x] the lack of rules in alt.* [x] ...and how alt somehow differes from usenet in this respect [ ] ...and that this means anything goes [x] ...without understanding what anarchy means [ ] ...and being a member of the Config Cabal [x] netiquette [x] ...and misspelling the word [ ] SPAM [ ] ...and how spam cancellers are censors [ ] ...claiming spam-cancelling is content-sensitive [ ] ...mentioning USC 18 [ ] ...whining about arresting [ ] ...Chris Lewis [ ] ...JEM [ ] Writing a spam program [ ] ...that doesn't work [ ] ...and testing it [ ] ...on a non-test group [ ] ...on news.* [ ] ...in csh [ ] ...and spamming an ad about it [x] Using the following previously debunked arguments: [x] People don't have the right to accept any cancel messages they like. [ ] ...And quoting USC 18 [ ] There are all these high volume groups anyway. [x] All you need to do is... [ ] ...use some magic news transport [x] ...use some magic news reader [ ] Freedom of speech means you have the right to shout down everyone else. [x] Flaming, complaining, or cajoling about: [ ] poor grammar [ ] poor spelling [ ] poor formatting [ ] inappropriate signatures [ ] inappropriate crossposts [x] inappropriate quoting [ ] You quoted the entire article you are following up to [ ] ...and failed to include any text. [x] I've heard it before. [x] ...but at least last time it was funny. [ ] ...and it never was funny [x] You are Dave Hayes. [ ] You are a kook... [ ] ...and make Dave Hayes look good. -- Peter da Silva (NIC: PJD2) `-_-' 1601 Industrial Boulevard Bailey Network Management 'U` Sugar Land, TX 77487-5013 +1 713 274 5180 "Har du kramat din varg idag?" USA Bailey pays for my technical expertise. My opinions probably scare them