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Re: [REBUTTAL] Censorship on cypherpunks?, from The Netly News



On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Declan McCullagh wrote:

> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 14:01:27 -0800 (PST)
> From: Declan McCullagh <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: [email protected]
> To: Dave Hayes <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [REBUTTAL] Censorship on cypherpunks?, from The Netly News 
> 
> It's not a way of saying I don't understand. Instead, I find your
> viewpoint incomprehensible and internally inconsistent.
> 
> In fact, you Freedom Knight folks seem to be closet censors yourself. Why
> do you support not carrying newsgroups like alt.config?
> 
> Yes, ownership gives you a license to censor. I'm going to have a party in
> my home a few weeks from now. If I don't like what someone is doing, I'll
> kick 'em out. I won't do it lightly, but I will fight for my right to do
> so.
> 
> Oh, and I plan to subscribe to the freedom-knights mailing list and infest
> it the way Vulis did cypherpunks. Every hour, on the hour, a crontab
> script will flood it with rants about Dave (fart) Hayes.
> 
> What will you do then?
> 

Simply use a mail-filter, stupid.

> -Declan
> 

Does this guy know what a filter is?

-aga