Xref: utzoo comp.org.eff.talk:1642 alt.sources.d:1608 Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!noao!asuvax!cs.utexas.edu!wotan!moxie!sugar!ficc!karl From: karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,alt.sources.d Subject: Re: Fooling the censors Message-ID: Date: 13 Mar 91 15:14:52 GMT References: <532@iczer-1.UUCP> <1991Mar13.033143.29172@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1991Mar13.061240.9825@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Reply-To: karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation Lines: 16 For the people who think what's happening to alt.sex.pictures is anti-sex censorship, watch what is happening to alt.fractals.pictures. It, too, is being "censored", with its connectivity slowly dribbling away. Now are you going to attribute this to a knee-jerk, fundamentalist mentality against fractals? Of course not. Lots of us (yes, I am a site admin who feeds several other sites) do not feel compelled to spend our own money to move 28+ megabytes of your copyright-infringing GIFs every two weeks, nor do we feel compelled to spend our money to move your insipid fractal GIFs around, and has been said about a hundred friggin' times, if you don't like it, why not spend a bit of your own money to pick it up from UUNET? I didn't think so. Why buy the cow when you can bitch in all caps about how the people providing the free milk should be forced to supply it in unlimited amounts? -- -- "If it ain't too broke, don't fix it." -- me, with apologies to Bert Lantz Save Twin Peaks!!