FOSS, Science, and Public activism

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

Well said. Best post so far.

I'm archiving this thread next to "mailscanner causes swap" and "it's 
bad to use MailScanner with postfix because Wietsev Enema said so!"...

;-)

Chris Sweeney wrote:
> Only your speech has no place here in this forum.  This is a forum for 
> supporting MailScanner and not your soap box.  What you are saying is 
> its ok to SPAM if it applies to some people.  Well that makes it ok 
> for everyone to SPAM here.  Let the present of the US come here and 
> talk about war, its ok then it applies to some people here.  Let the 
> bankers come here and post about banking problems today, that applies 
> to most everyone here we all use banks, oh and lets not leave out the 
> oil company's, they deserve a place here to post why they think they 
> are not taking us to the cleaners on oil prices!  Keep your posting's 
> where they really belong because all you have done here is draw 
> support away from what you wanted us to support.  Take your 
> "expression" and post it on the list you moderate and don't subject 
> people trying to support a product to your whim.
>
> Good day sir and good riddance.
>
>
> proclus at gnu-darwin.org wrote:
>> On  4 Jul, Anders Andersson, IT wrote:
>>   
>>> I second the opinion to keep the list clean from 
>>> "SPAM" 
>>>     
>>
>> Clearly I am arguing that the label of spam should not be used to quell
>> expression.  As a list moderator of several lists, I know what spam
>> is, and it is usually dealt with automatically, but that process must
>> not exclude legitimate speech, which could quell discussion in our
>> forums.  I've seen that happen too, and it is a really a shame to see a
>> good forum go dark.
>>
>> Regards,
>> proclus
>> http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
>>
>>
>>   
>
> -- 
> Thanks Chris
>
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>
> csweeney at osubucks.org
>
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