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From: al@crucible.UUCP (Al Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Fool
Summary: Electronic Frontier ShootEmUp
Message-ID: <284@crucible.UUCP>
Date: 4 Nov 90 15:31:53 GMT
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In article <1990Nov4.031734.19127@com50.c2s.mn.org> craig@com50.c2s.mn.org (Craig Wilson) writes:

>So, this is the Electronic Frontier?  Based upon what I have seen lately, it
>looks like a pretty barren landscape where not much will grow (up!).

>At least in the American Frontier of the last century, this kind of discussion
>would lead out into the street where it would be settled in short order so that
>the rest of us could get back into the saloon to finish our drinks.

Actually, it seems to me like this is a *good* place for this discussion,
juvenile though it be. After all, why do you think we call it the
*frontier*, podnuh?:-)

But *any* society needs mechanisms for adjusting differences, even stupid
differences. And for this very new sort of society, it seems evident that
those means do NOT involve appeals to authority of any sort, whether lawsuits
or sixguns (appeals to sysadmins are discounted as being useful only due
to temporary anomalies in the distribution of technology:-)

So the question is valid: How DO we, here at the forefront of the future,
resolve such differences within the anarchy? Perhaps the kill file is
the ultimate weapon?
					--Al Evans--
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