From: dave@kachina.jetcafe.org (Dave Hayes)
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 04:23:55 -0800

tph@longhorn.uucp (Tom "Tom" Harrington) writes:
>the Cabal[tm] does not exist.
>There is no Cabal[tm].
>There is NO CABAL[tm]!!!

     NetNews Citation for news.* (issued by Dave Hayes)

[x] Denying the existance of the Usenet Cabal
    [ ] ...and doing so to a poor newbie
[x] Being, supporting, applauding, or agreeing with a member of the Usenet Cabal 
[ ] Yawping against free speech
    [ ] ...and mentioning ownership of the press
    [ ] ...and mentioning ownership of your server
    [ ] ...and mentioning netiquitte
    [ ] ...and mentioning your standard of appropriateness
    [ ] ...and mentioning how much you pay for news
[ ] Yawping about the lack of control freaks
    [ ] ...and how you are trying to save the net
    [ ] ...combined with one of the following names:
        [ ] Serder Argic
        [ ] Canter
        [ ] Siegel
        [ ] Spam
[ ] Attempting to speak for someone else on the net
[ ] Bullying a poor newbie
    [ ] ...into submission
    [ ] ...off of the Net 
    [ ] ...about appropriate posting by your personal standard of appropriateness
    [ ] ...about crossposting
    [ ] ...about spamming
    [ ] ...with things you wouldn't DARE touch an old-timer with
    [ ] ...and mailing his postmaster
[ ] 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
[ ] Failing to ignore:
    [ ] ...a posting you yourself claim is worthless
    [ ] ...a newsgroup 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
    [ ] ...articles from:
        [ ] Serder Argic
        [ ] Canter OR Siegel
        [ ] Any Usenet Kook, Loon, Whiny, or Dickhead
    [ ] ...an obvious forgery
    [ ] ...a troll
    [ ] ...spam or velveeta
    [ ] ...control messages you didn't like
[ ] Failing to have a newsreader that
    [ ] ...presents articles on a menu for selection
    [ ] ...consolodates subject
    [ ] ...has threads
    [ ] ...has killfiles
    [ ] ...has a 'next message' key 
        [ ] ...and worse, failing to USE the damn thing
    [ ] ...has a clue
[ ] Failing to configure your news server to:
    [ ] ...possess enough disk space for your newsspool
        [ ] ... 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
    [ ] ...ignore sendsys messages
    [ ] ...ignore rmgroup messages
    [ ] ...honor all newgroup messages
    [ ] ...use a properly configured network connection 
    [ ] ...ignore badly formed newgroup messages
[ ] Blaming someone else for your news server's misconfiguration
[x] Failing to have in one's possession:
    [x] ...a clue
        [ ] ...about the lack of uniformity in the human race
        [ ] ...about the ancient newsreader you are using
        [ ] ...about news transport software
        [ ] ...about true honor
        [ ] ...about life and living 
    [ ] ...respect for differing points of view
    [ ] ...the technical expertise to run a news server
[ ] Holding forth on:
    [ ] the lack of rules in alt.*
        [ ] ...and how abusive it is not to have some
        [ ] ...and how close-minded everyone else is
        [ ] ...and how alt is a useless hierarchy
        [ ] ...and being a member of the Config Cabal
    [ ] nettiquete
    [ ] SPAM
        [ ] ...and how bad it is
        [ ] ...and how prevalent it is
        [ ] ...and how justified the spam cancellers are      
[ ] Writing a net robot that:
    [ ] ...cancels messages
        [ ] ...based on a pattern or algorithm
    [ ] ...reposts messages
    [ ] ...superceeds messages
    [ ] ...is associated with the word ARMM
[ ] Using the following previously debunked arguments:
    [ ] People pay for news, so it's their right to determine what someone
        else can and cannot do in another country.
    [ ] If everyone did it, it would destroy news as we know it. 
    [ ] You can't ignore:
         [ ] a news posting like that one
         [ ] that many news postings
         [ ] crossposted articles like that one
         [ ] spamming 
    [ ] Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one
[ ] Flaming, complaining, or cajoling about:
       [ ] poor grammar
       [ ] poor spelling
       [ ] poor formatting 
       [ ] inappropriate signatures
       [ ] inappropriate crossposts
[ ] You quoted the entire article you are following up to
    [ ] ...and failed to include any text.
[x] I've heard it before.
    [ ] ...but at least last time it was funny.
    [ ] ...and it never was funny
[ ] You are Jay Maynard. All the above apply to you.
-- 
         >>> Dave Hayes - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org <<<

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