From: samamcclung@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, October 14, 1998 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-5, DigDesCyan wrote:   
   > snippity doo dah, snippity day,    
   > snipped all the crapola, and nothing was left...   
   >    
   > greetings fellow lurkers, freakazoids, spam bunnies and the odd seeker of   
   truth   
   > (?)...   
   > a long time ago in a galaxy, well, thisy here milky galaxy, i used to read   
   tons   
   > (okay, several pounds) of assasssination literature and became interested in   
   > checking out the concensus of opinions from fellow seekers...   
   > i lurked around thisy here and thatty there moderated newsgruppe for a while,   
   > then started to ask various questions i had, as well as critique the various   
   > answers observed...   
   > eventually, i was 'scared off' by several incidents, as well as better things   
   > to do with my time :   
   > 1. LNers would not engage in on point discourse of legitimate questions   
   > regarding their theories...   
   > (in short, LN intrepretation of LHO behavior, motivations and state of mind   
   > were permissible, contrary speculation was not supported by fact...)   
   > 2. the disgust and disrespect i came to hold for those 'moderators' (sic) who   
   > Insisted they were'nt censors, because, well, because they defined censorship   
   > so as to exclude them and their actions...   
   > (neato : "sorry, the charter made me do it!" )   
   > oh, i guess it's okay then, sorry, i'll go back to munching the pasture, i'm   
   > just a stupid sheeple...)   
   > 3. and last -but by NO means least- dot john both baited me into repsonding   
   to   
   > HIS insulting correspondence AND THEN subsequently bullied my ISP into   
   > threatening my service...   
   > (the details are more boring than enlightening, but said chickenshit ISP   
   -AFTER   
   > the fact- agreed that A. they were wrong in doing so, B. agreed that   
   > 'guidelines' for terminating service were not in existence, and C. both the   
   > alleged 'crime' and sequence of events were unfairly reacted to)   
   > so, to review:   
   > 1. censorship is NOT censorship when the censors say it is not, period. (How   
   > many times does HJR have to repeat that! *sheesh*)   
   > 2. TRUE slime like dot john DO THREATEN people both figuratively in their   
   posts   
   > (whether dressed up with multi-syllabic words or four letter ones), and   
   > Literally in bullying their opponents ISPs into terminating service...   
   > 3. bloody, stupid, disingenous, etc, etc...   
   > evidently these are *compliments* in HJR's lexicon?    
   > come'on, the 'tone' was/is insulting, the context is insulting, the Intention   
   > was insulting...    
   > it IS a freaking insult, you can't run very fast away from it when you are   
   > hoisted on your own petard...   
   > 4. NOT being able to discuss 'off topic' (sic) issues -such as the   
   censorship,   
   > oops, moderation of a newsgruppe- AS defined by the 'charter' (hmmmmm, said   
   > charter evidently having sprung fully grown from the brow of Zeus, untouched   
   by   
   > the hand of censors, er, moderators), IS CENSORSHIP!!   
   > HOW is it NOT!!   
   > this is bizarre : HOW is it NOT censorship that INQUIRING about the 'policies   
   > and practices' of the censors, oops, moderators is NOT germane to the   
   > newsgruppe itself and its very content???   
   > WHERE ELSE would such a query legitimately go??   
   > it Concerns*THAT* Newsgruppe, it *should* be posted in *that* newsgruppe...   
   > ann archy   
   > eof   
      
   A recurring theme...   
      
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