From: Seebs Date: 2010-04-15T15:35:05+09:00 Subject: Re: Who maintains ruby-talk? On 2010-04-15, Josh Cheek wrote: > I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty > than to those attending too small a degree of it. > --Thomas Jefferson Non-sequitur. "Liberty" does not mean that anyone who wants can disrupt anything, or harass anyone, they want. Decent moderation does not noticably impair liberty. More generally, a liberty which is useless has been effectively removed. > I find it rather curious that in the thread Tony starts, out of concern for > spammers and security holes, he posts 4 times in a row over the course of > ten minutes, and links to code that can be used to remove anyone from the > list. > Isn't he advocating an institution which, upon it's inception, would be > obligated to ban him? No. He's not spamming, and he's not posting malware. He's not doing things that could reasonably be mistaken for those, either. -s -- Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nospam@seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated!