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From: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard)
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Subject: KILL files (was Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: talk.philosophy.objectivism)
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Date: 22 Jan 90 19:08:19 GMT
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jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes:
>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.
>
>Until every site running news - on any OS, not just Unix - has kill
>files, we should not make net policy based on their existence.

Of course we should.  Kill files are as near to universal as any
newsreader feature worth naming.

Are we to base all policy decisions on pandering to the least common
denominator, thereby removing the incentive to modernize?

Backwards compatibility is one thing, but holding back the rest of the
net for the mere convenience of those running obsolete software, is
quite another.

Wayne();