Subj : Female Spam is *not* a virus
To   : Gary Gilmore
From : Bennie Hutto
Date : Thu Feb 14 2002 01:28 pm

Hello Gary.

13 Feb 02 17:57, you wrote to Paul Williams:

PW>>  If your lists and more importantly your *ISP* are *that*
PW>> temperamental, may I suggest the posters get some Paxil or Zoloft
PW>> and chill?

GG> I don't agree.  Sean Rima requested that his echoes not be gated.
GG> Shannon Talley gated them NNTP.  Sean Rima has his reasons, and they
GG> should just be accepted, or don't use his echoes.  Shannon ignored
GG> them (or couldn't be bothered to see if there *where* any restrictions
GG> on the echo(es), and there we go... spam city.  Thanks Shannon.

GG> FWIW, Shannon Talley also is gating some of the echoes I moderate, and
GG> they also have a "No gating" request in the elisting, and Shannon
GG> never, ever contacted me to ask "do you mind" prior to doing so.
GG> Neato.  :-/


I can't believe all this bullshiet. The message bases on Fidotel are
available via several different means. If you log on via oh, say, telnet,
and join say, oh, COOKING, you'll be reading the exact same message base
that an NNTP user is reading. The messages are available in a different
format for a different online reader.

Would you tell everyone who runs, oh, say, Synchronet, to remove their
NNTP connectability just because a few people BITCH about people having
access to their BBS message bases via an NNTP reader program?
This is not gating, it's merely being able to provide viable formats for
people who would rather access the messages another way. It's called
"progress" when an author adds more functionality to his program.

Regards,
Bennie


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