Xref: utzoo comp.org.eff.talk:1643 alt.sources.d:1609 Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!spdcc!dirtydog!ico!rcd From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,alt.sources.d Subject: Re: Fooling the censors Summary: alt.fractals.pictures is even stupider Message-ID: <1991Mar13.203757.23558@ico.isc.com> Date: 13 Mar 91 20:37:57 GMT References: <532@iczer-1.UUCP> Organization: Interactive Systems Corporation, Boulder, CO Lines: 20 karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: > 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... In fact, it may go away faster. I shut it off here when I had to unwedge news and found *one* REELY KUL twit had posted > 4 Mb in a day...as Karl says, it has nothing to do with censorship or morality. We *use* news here; we can't have it wedged up. And alt.fractals.pictures is even stupider than alt.sex.pictures! At least with a.s.p you've got some semblance of real-world data; a.f.p is essentially just program output. Ship the programs and initial data around instead; save two orders of magnitude in what gets transmitted. Think a little. Yeah, you can dodge the barriers that are being set up; people who administer the machines will just move the barriers as needed to keep from getting inundated with gigantic postings they don't want. -- Dick Dunn rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd Boulder, CO (303)449-2870 ...But is it art?