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Re: Can We Cut the Crap?
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> "Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin]" <[email protected]> writes:
> > > There are people on this mailing list who appear to have very little techni
> > > expertise (e.g., can't figure out how an anonymous remailer works), contrib
> > > nothing but silly puerile flames to the discussion, and whose harassment ha
> > > caused Fred to stop contributing. They've deprived Fred of his right to spr
> > > and readers like me of our right to listen. This is censorship by bullying.
> >
> > Now there you are wrong. No one forced Fred to stop posting to the list
> > (I noticed that I just got a posting from him just yesterday, so he may
> > have stopped since then), but no one deprived Fred of his right to speak.
> > I don't see Eric Hughes standing up and saying "Fed, stop posting to the
> > list", and I certainly note that his postings are getting through to the
> > list. So, your statements regarding people harassing Fred, causing him to
> > stop posting, etc., are just eyewash and an attempt to emotionally
> > manipulate your audience by calling it "censorship".
>
> Ed, I've met Eric Hughes. You're no Eric Hughes.
So? How do you know? Your comment made absolutely no sense at all.
> The crypto people on this mailing list have asked people repeatedly to
> curtail non-crypto-related postings (most recently, Tim May, who started
> this thread). This is not censorship. The sliencing of Fred Cohen by a lynch
> mob of non-technicals (who, e.g., send e-mail twice) is a disturbing example
> of censorship.
Crap. If Fred doesn't want to post, that's his choice (as he has
indicated in private mail to me), but it's not your call to conclude that
he is being "censored".
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