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From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,news.admin,comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: newbies unite!
Message-ID: <9106121347.44@rmkhome.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jun 91 22:47:00 GMT
References: <9327@buster2.Michigan.COM> <8003@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <9331@buster2.Michigan.COM> <1991Jun10.221745.21108@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
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In article <1991Jun10.221745.21108@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>rabbit@buster2.UUCP (Dr. Roger Rabbit) writes:
>
>> You know what - I haven't heard from Mr. Dolan for
>> a long time, but I did see some followups to his
>> posts. Found out that the SYSOP here (Mr. Palmer)
>> has put Dolan's entire site into the global
>> kill-file on the main box here.
>
>Looks like he got a sudden case of hives at having
>his mendacity pointed out where the paying customers
>can see it. I guess we have to add cowardice to his
>sociopathy as another incurable character flaw. It
>is hilarious that he has declared public victory
>over that evil man from xanth, who, in his mind, is
>the one cause of all his net troubles, while at the
>same time being too frightened to even allow his
>subscribers to read the words of the vanquished.
>Interpolate a heartfelt evil chuckle here, if it
>pleases you. I suppose there is some administrative
>question here about the appropriateness of offering
>your customers a "Usenet account", and then silently
>disabling part of that account's feed to keep your
>customers from learning about your underhanded
>business practices. Somehow it seems entirely
>typical of a John P. Palmer thought process. Perhaps
>some kind soul will quote this posting in full just
>to get it to the customers of DDMI.

Perhaps we should help Palmer out, and kill all DDMI postings
to our machines.  Then he could have his own little isolated
universe to rant and rave in.

>> You know that that box serves about 950 machines.
>> Looks like your excluded from a big part of the
>> net, Kent. (I bet I am too, though :-> )

How do you feed 950 machines with a 25MHz 386 box?

>I've always been a popular kill file entry; too
>many people in the world can't abide strong opinions
>or clearly stated truths; I won't much miss the
>dial-ups at DDMI, but wonder whether they need a few
>folks like me just to keep management honest.
>
>I, myself, don't use kill files as kill files, though
>for a few low value, high noise groups, I do use them
>to select what I read by keyword, and ignore the rest;
>stands me in good stead.  I manage to survive reading
>postings that disagree with me, and often learn from
>them, sometimes nothing more than humility.  Too bad
>Palmer is so intent on maintaining his errors that he
>can't similarly abide criticism, but weak is as weak
>does.


Yes, kill files are great noise limiters.

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	frog!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP