In comp.os.linux.advocacy, [H]omer
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on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:14:53 +0000
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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Just killfile everything from Tera, [???]without[???] the exception
>> of Ghost. It's noise reduction.
>
> You mean "with"?
>
> I really wish Ghost would switch from that Troll's haven to a real news
> server. It'd make my killfile a /lot/ smaller and easier to maintain.
>
Something cheap would be nice. ;-) One advantage (or
disadvantage, depending on one's point of view) is that
TeraNews provides 60 MB/day on a pittance -- about half
a cent a day, or $5 every 3 years.
Since I don't really need to download gigabytes of possibly
illegal alt.binaries.*-transmitted pr0n, it works for me.
Of course with my luck the trolls will follow me.
Not because I do bot-hosting or anything equally silly,
mind you; it's just that I look for costs and so do they,
getting their message out to (or, more likely, just annoying
the hell out of) the maximum number of people.
I'm not above trolling, admittedly, but do want to be
very intelligent about it; it's one thing to bring up
interesting and intelligent concepts that people can
discuss, quite another to throw in KKK, Nazism, Holocaust
denial, various forms of bodily functions that aren't
usually discussed in polite company, murder, conspiracies,
etc. etc.
It used to be said that piracy [*] flourishes in an
environment where drive power is free, at least on the
open seas; the pirates by and large died out when commerce
switched to oil-fueled ships. Unfortunately, any such
blanket statement has to take into consideration issues
such as Somalia, and of course the Internet introduces
rather bizarre concepts of its own -- which one should
expect, since the medium of the Internet is not water,
and the "goods" aren't exactly boxable in wooden or
steel crates/containers.
[*] Broadly put, the hijacking of vessels and/or
carriage outside of port; the land-based variant
might be called highway robbery. On the Information
Superhighway, as usual, things are hopelessly muddled,
especially since "goods" are so readily duplicated,
though they might not be as readily consumed if the
payload of a packet stream is encrypted.
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