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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:03
Bruce Schneier (schneier@counterpane.com)
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 04:04:19 -0600
At 10:13 AM 1/14/99 +0100, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
>One is certainly free to invest much of one's time to demonstrate
>the blunders of others (and this is certainly to be appreciated).
>Equally free is one, however, to voice one's arbitrarily opinions,
>provided that one is convinced of their truth (though maybe incorrect
>in fact) and provided that there is no personal insult expressed (both
>provisions are on moral grounds only). In the particular case of
>internet discussions, I have seen certain negative aspects of this
>liberty, as evidenced by spams, the use of impolite (even very bad)
>words, sidetracking (I mean the intentional diversion of the
>attention of the public from the original topic) and chatting (one
>honourable person once even openly admitted this), etc. But these
That's me, by the way. He objected that I would not continue a discussion
until he was satisfied. I said that I use sci.crypt (and this mailing list)
as a diversion and not as paying work or research, and just chatted about
stuff there. He took objection. He even told me that I should consider the
various chat rooms for such endeavours.
>could be considered a tolerable evil in the face of the benefits that
>accrue from rapid communications of ideas as a whole (despite the
>intermingled bad ideas). For sci-groups, those with the postfix
>'research' are monitored to some degree but the rest are to my
>knowledge entirely free as long as there is no extremely severe
>conflict with the charters. For the present list my personal impression
>is that the list owner has been exercising the right amount of
>monitoring, liberal, fair and correct.
Mr. Shen, you are of course free to do what you want. This is the
Internet, after all. Everyone is in charge. But hopefully this exchange will
go some way to explain why you aren't getting many technical responses
to your postings.
Bruce
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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:03