gcf@panix.UUCP (Gordon Fitch) (10/31/89)
In article <1303@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> hb@Virginia.EDU (Hank Bovis) writes: )In article <36049@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: )[Attribution for the following lost. --hb] )##No, it's not. Perhaps if we (the set of all USENET administrators) )##knew how postings were forged, we'd know how to stop forgeries. ) )Or perhaps not, at least not in any meaningful sense. Depending )on the method, it might be that the only way to stop the forgery )be to stop the *genuine* article as well. Obviously, the only way to solve the problem _meaningfully_ is to insist that _all_ articles be forged. There would then never be a question of whether someone really said something or not, as if anyone cared. And since the forgeries are generally of a higher quality than the average article, the quality of the net would be immeasurably improved. Look, _you_ posted to talk.bizarre. Whoever "you" are. I'm just following up. Let's see, whose id should I choose.... -- * Gordon Fitch || gcf@panix | uunet!hombre!mydog!gcf *
jsb@panix.UUCP (J. S. B'ach) (11/01/89)
In article <245@panix.UUCP> gcf@panix.UUCP (Gordon Fitch) writes:
)Obviously, the only way to solve the problem _meaningfully_ is
)to insist that _all_ articles be forged. There would then never
)be a question of whether someone really said something or not, as
)if anyone cared.
)
)And since the forgeries are generally of a higher quality than
)the average article, the quality of the net would be immeasurably
)improved.
Most articles are already forged. Ever since presidents began hiring speech
writers, the 'author' of an article has been just a character string to use as an
organizing principle by the reader or kill file. It usually is a more accurate
categorizer than the (so-called) subject and often more so than the newsgroup
to which the article is posted. Besides, Buddhism teaches us that the ego is
an illusion. I certainly had nothing to do with writing any of the above.
--
cmcl2!panix!jsb (jim)
"Don't worry, be Abbie. Have a nice death."
--Paul Krasner's advice to the late Abbie Hoffmanhb@uvaarpa.virginia.edu (Hank Bovis) (11/01/89)
In article <245@panix.UUCP> gcf@panix.UUCP (Gordon Fitch) writes: #In article <1303@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> hb@Virginia.EDU (Hank Bovis) writes: #)In article <36049@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: #)[Attribution for the following lost. --hb] #)##No, it's not. Perhaps if we (the set of all USENET administrators) #)##knew how postings were forged, we'd know how to stop forgeries. #)Or perhaps not ... #Obviously, the only way ... # #Look, _you_ posted to talk.bizarre. Whoever "you" are. I'm just #following up. Let's see, whose id should I choose.... Y, any valid _U_ID would B fine, doncha C? hb -- Hank Bovis (hb@Virginia.EDU, hb@Virginia.BITNET) ** Vote YES to sci.aquaria; send votes to richard@gryphon.COM. **