Re: More FSF hypocrisy

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 09:27:34AM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms@1407.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:46:40PM -0400, Hyman Rosen wrote:
> 
> > You know,
> 
> > There's only so much skill fine tuning you can do when you fight dolls.
> 
> > Rjack, Therekov, amicus something, and all those trolls will NEVER see
> > this or that. Their sole purpose is to make people loose time answering
> > them and to polute mailing lists.
> 
> I'm not quite convinced of that - I suspect that one of them in
> particular got "caught out" by the GPL in the past, and hasn't stopped
> bawling like a 7 year old how he's really right.  Another stated some
> while back that being disparaging about GNU was his hobby.
> 
> > They're paid for it.
> 
> Any particular reason you say that?

I just can't believe a crazy person would be able to so relentelessly
bother people in such elaborate ways for such a long time.

> > I'm seriously tempted to just give this list away, but I'm still
> > (naively?) hoping the list admins would do anything, but I suspect even
> > they are long gone.
> 
> Oh no, we're still here.  :-)

Glad to know! :)

> I do moderation on some other GNU mailing
> lists, but not this one.  The moderation is purely to exclude advertising
> and, occasionally, excessive swearing.  Once you get into censorship, no
> matter how good the reasons, you are on a slippery slope to being no
> better than the people you're shutting out.  Paul Graham
> <http://www.paulgraham.com/> discussed this with regard to blocking
> lists for filtering mail; people set up a new clean blocking list because
> of the corruption in the one they left, and in their turn become corrupt
> themselves - the power goes to their head.

ok, how do you propose to protect legitimate users from the constant
harassing of either crazy or paid people? I'd like to know.

Best,
Rui

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