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From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: talk.philosophy.objectivism
Summary: KILL files are not universal.
Message-ID: <:2H:5K_@splut.conmicro.com>
Date: 21 Jan 90 14:13:49 GMT
References: <1990Jan14.142457.19621@twwells.com> <381@dbase.A-T.COM>
Reply-To: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
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In article <381@dbase.A-T.COM> dveditz@dbase.A-T.com (Dan Veditz) writes:
>Just put the habitual flamers in your KILL file and don't worry about 
>it.  If you really want free discussion about the subject, let it be
>free discussion.

This is the third or fourth message from Dan touting KILL files as the
solution to all net.problems. There's only one problem with that;

rn is not universally used on the net. Neither is any other reader with
kill file capability.

Until every site running news - on any OS, not just Unix - has kill
files, we should not make net policy based on their existence.

-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL   | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jay@splut.conmicro.com       (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity.
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