From: 19efppp@mail.com   
      
   On Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 5:40:41 PM UTC-5, Sam McClung wrote:   
   > 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...   
   Yes, which is why the Nuthouse continues to dance like a drunken sailor around   
   its grave, refusing to fall in. The Nutters here would rather be sipping their   
   martinis on Gilligan's Island with Adolf Hitler, but are forced by their inner   
   bergermeisters to    
   linger on until the sailor drops.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)