Re: Ebonics

["Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>]

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On Tue, 24 Dec 1996, Ray Arachelian wrote:

> > If, as has been said, assassination is the ultimate form of censorship,
> > then Dr. Vulis has been shot, stoned, beat on, and cement-booted, but
> > he still lives and is a thorn (no pun intended) in the side of would-
> > be censors on the Internet.
> 
> If he had been ultimatly censored, shot, stoned, beat on, and 
> cement-booted, he certainly wouldn't be able to post.  He's still here. 
> So the above is bullshit.

It's extremely trivial to prevent someone from posting to a mailing list.  The
fact that John Gilmore has not done this probably means that he doesn't want to
rather than an inability to do the above.

> It's not a question that he found a way to read from and post to the 
> cypherpunks list.  He hasn't been prevented from doing so, therefore his 
> unsubscription hasn't been enforced, so he's still here.

Anyone can read cypherpunks and there's not much anyone can do to prevent
someone from receiving list traffic.  However, this doesn't really matter.  An
ISP that pulls the plug on a spammer doesn't try to prevent that person from
reading or posting to that newsgroup.  That person won't be able to do it
using the ISP's resources.

Mark
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