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Re: What is spam? (was Re: Scary Survey results about the US First Amendment
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 9 Jul 2001 09:02:05 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Matthew Gerber writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > > From my usual source, the Libertarian propaganda (NOT spam, mind you, I
> > > wanted it sent it to me, and I, as a regular participant of this group, feel
> > > it's worthy of discussion, so people who initially label it as spam are rude
> > > or clueless, take your pick) that I get in my email...
> >
> > Come on, Larry. Look at it like whoever labeled it spam did: while YOU may
> > have requested it, lugnet.off-topic.debate did NOT request it...you posted
> > it for public consumption unbidden...that's why someone called it spam.
> > That's all (Well, and MAYBE to get your hackles up, but it wasn't me, so I
> > don't know 8?) )
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> People initiate topics all the time. Initiating a topic is, by nature,
> unbidden, except perhaps in the larger context of the events of the day
> raising awareness. So, then, any topic that is initiated by anyone can then
> be labeled spam by any other participant? That's the result of carrying your
> argument to its logical extreme.
>
> If you think that's a correct outcome, fine but I still think it's rude to
> do so. But somehow I suspect you don't actually think that.
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> As for doing things to get people's hackles up... this is a free speech
> forum, true, but not all free speech is value add. Is it the mark of a
> mature debater to do things just to get someone's goat? Is that an attribute
> we want to foster here?
How right you are. But pasting all this LP crap into LUGNET is one step away
from pasting adds for chocalte bars or cars. There are real issue out their
which are worth talking about - your selfish breed of politics is not. It
often surprises me how big news stories in the US/world(1) never make it to
this group, instead we talk about how much morals a stone can have.
Scott A
eg:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1428000/1428460.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1429000/1429726.stm
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1421000/1421928.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1402000/1402880.stm
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> No, and no. It's not a mark I consider mature and it's not an activity I
> would choose to see fostered here.
>
> ++Lar
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