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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!bigbang.astro.indiana.edu!pitts From: pitts@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) Subject: Re: [RFD] Jesus and 386bsd.announce Message-ID: <CGC5sx.GDu@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: bigbang.astro.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University Astrophysics, Bloomington, IN References: <PATRICK.93Nov10143452@buffy.cs.msstate.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 16:29:20 GMT Lines: 46 In article <PATRICK.93Nov10143452@buffy.cs.msstate.edu> patrick@buffy.cs.msstate.edu (Patrick Bridges) writes: > >An informal (very) RFD: > >In an effort to resolve this mess w/ Jesus and 386bsd.announce newsgroup... > >Some options: > >1. Ban Jesus Monroy Jr. from 386bsd.announce. Who's willing to count an > informal vote? I could be persuaded. I vote for you, although I think it is a waste of time. I should be able to post freely. I am confident a vote would let him stay. > >2. Allow all Jesus postings to go through to .announce, with the stipulation > that they all be followed by a posting to .announce giving instructions > on how to add him to the kill file of your favorite news reader. > (I'd put together the instructions, even...) > (We could put it in the FAQ too... :->) This is worse than option 1 in my opinion. What this says is if we can't censor him (and that is -exactly- what we are talking about here), then let's tag his postings and persecute him. I would agree to a situation like this -only- if everyones postings were followed by such a notice. This obviously not being a good solution, a global notice telling how to add -anyone- to your kill file is an obvious idea to consider. > >Either of these would make me happy. Personally, I prefer the second. >Let him write all he wants, just make it so noone reads the tripe. > Reading the news since all this started has been a real pain, -not- because of the postings of Jesus. They were easy to igonre. The real pain was from reading all the flame-postings/jokes/trash posted in -response- to these. The obvious solution to this 'problem' is not to to -anything- to Jesus, but for people to wise up and realize that you don't respond to such postings. Jim