RE: Free speech and GA (Re: [ga] Time to put...)

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

This is Joe Baptista posing as Roeland Meyer.

On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:

> Actually, this is what I had in mind. The technology is readily available.
> If we simply knew who posted what and could trust a message to be from
> whomever it claims to be from, that would go a long way to clean up the
> garbage around here. Once a post can actually be laid a someone's feet, I

Shame - to call your opponents garbage.  I guess that gives me licence to
call you an IBM whore.  Not very nice is it.

> believe that the list will self-moderate. I've actually observed this
> before. The noise level is at its peak when anonymous posters are present,
> it goes down a bunch when originators are known, it goes down a bunch more
> when a poster can be verified. This is all without external intervention.

The list is not nor has it ever been self moderating.  This list is for
show.  This list is to serve IBM's self interests and not much more.

I say to you roeland - go ahead and make this conference more difficult to
post too.  Already we see the result of censorship.  No one is interested
in participating anymore.

In fact the key participants - the IBM sluts - have been forced into
posting anything and everything to get this conference going again.  It's
dead in here.  So I say sure - let's make it more difficult to post.  That
should put the last nail into the dnso ga coffin.

Regards
Joe Baptista