On Flames and Mailing lists, and a bit about computers

From: Jack Peacock <peacock_at_simconv.com>
Date: Thu Mar 19 13:02:09 1998

Enrico Tedeschi wrote:
>I feel that ANY rule in ANY organization is wrong.
>
>In the case of mailing lists or newsgroups if messages are off
topic than
>either the senders are not answered OR the recipients who do
not agree move
>away from that list or newsgroup. There no need to police and
policing: they
>should be self adjusting. History has proved time and time
again that
>centralized and fascist societies do not last long and do come
to and end
>(often abruptedly).


Good heavens, another libertarian anarchist. It's people like
you who build computers in your garage instead of accepting that
only billion dollar corporations have the resources to build
computer products. Where would Bill Gates be today if he
believed in ideals like that? Why, he'd be worth billions of
dollars....hmm....wait a second, that didn't come out right.
        Jack Peacock
Received on Thu Mar 19 1998 - 13:02:09 GMT