[48171] in Cypherpunks
Re: "This post is G-Rated"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike McNally)
Fri Jan 26 14:12:16 1996
From: m5@dev.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 12:50:07 -0600
To: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Cc: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May), cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199601261839.KAA19984@netcom6.netcom.com>
Bill Frantz writes:
> >Enforce? Enforce? Exsqueeze me?
>
> On cypherpunks, Perry is the principle enforcer, although others frequently
> join in.
Oh, right. I remember now. All the off-topic junk I see on this
list is just my imagination. All the billions of "UNSUBSCRIBE" and
"SIGNOFF" and "SET NO-MAIL" messages I see on the mailing lists I'm on
are just bits of lint that slip by.
The "enforcement" is always a reactive thing. I don't think you'd get
far with a parent explaining that the material they consider indecent
which somehow showed up on alt.kids.only would be dealt with by
blistering flames.
> >And of course, it doesn't work...
>
> Of course it works. Cypherpunks stays much more on the topic than it would
> without Perry. Since Perry has no way of directly enforcing his opinions,
> they can be overridden by any other posters, but his "moral suasion" does
> have an effect on many of us.
So you think those who want a "controlled cyberspace" would be happy
with newsgroups that stay "mostly decent"? I strongly doubt it, and I
will also add that such "enforcement" is far, far less effective on
newsgroups than on mailing lists.
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