5 Mar
2005
5 Mar
'05
7:09 p.m.
Have you ever heard of the word SOVEREIGNTY? I run my
own servers
for everything because I exercise my right to be totally independent
from the outside world.
Yet you want the benefits of the outside world - benefits like this
mailing list. Can't have it both ways.
The Founding Fathers of ARPANET made it accessible to
everyone. I
have the right to be a netizen even if
...no. Nobody has a "right" to be on the net (which is what I assume
you mean by "be a netizen").
Even if you did, you are forgetting another one of the prime principles
of the Classic Net: politeness.
Politeness includes things like not raking a volunteer over the coals
for not continuing to provide something for free in quite the same way
he used to, or perhaps not the way you, armchair-quarterbacking, think
he ought to.
In my opinion you deserve to be dropped from the list for the egregious
rudeness your message exhibits. Nobody, possibly excepting Jay, has a
*right* to receive cct{alk,ech} mail.
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