Re: blacklist

["Jim Patterson" <jpatters7@hotmail.com>]

Couldn't you have at least waited one more day to post your message?  Then
the post you were responding to would have been a full month old.  :-)

--
Jim Patterson


Josh Sebastian <curien@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:39a02a94.55434150@news.earthlink.net...
> On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 03:35:58 -0600, "E. Robert Tisdale"
> <edwin@netwood.net> wrote:
>
> >I have been considering maintaining and publishing
> >a blacklist data base for this newsgroup.
> >The blacklist data base would contain the names
> >of subscribers who post off-topic articles
> >to the newsgroup.
> >New subscribers and infrequent contributors
> >to the newsgroup would be advised
> >to consult the blacklist data base before responding
> >to articles posted in the newsgroup.
> >There would be, of course, no penalty imposed
> >upon subscribers who respond off-topic articles
> >except the penalty imposed by the blacklistee.
> >That is to say, the blacklist would be self enforcing.
>
> I believe that Mr. Tisdale did not post this message. If you look at
> the message headers, you can see several important differences from
> the message headers in Mr. Tisdale's "normal" posts.
>
> Discrepancy #1:
> The timezone is different.
>
> Discrepancy #2:
> The message-id is different.
>
> Discrepancy #3:
> There are fewer HTTP fields in the "Blacklist" header (implying a
> different newsreader).
>
> In fact, the only similarities between the header for "Blacklist" and
> the headers from Mr. Tisdale's usual posts are the ones that are
> easily forged by a novice.
>
> Despite your personal opinion of Mr. Tisdale, slander is totally
> uncalled for.
> _______
>
> "Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when
preceded by its quotation.
>
> Josh Sebastian
> <curien@earthlink.net>