karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) (03/13/91)
For the people who think what's happening to alt.sex.pictures is anti-sex censorship, watch what is happening to alt.fractals.pictures. It, too, is being "censored", with its connectivity slowly dribbling away. Now are you going to attribute this to a knee-jerk, fundamentalist mentality against fractals? Of course not. Lots of us (yes, I am a site admin who feeds several other sites) do not feel compelled to spend our own money to move 28+ megabytes of your copyright-infringing GIFs every two weeks, nor do we feel compelled to spend our money to move your insipid fractal GIFs around, and has been said about a hundred friggin' times, if you don't like it, why not spend a bit of your own money to pick it up from UUNET? I didn't think so. Why buy the cow when you can bitch in all caps about how the people providing the free milk should be forced to supply it in unlimited amounts? -- -- "If it ain't too broke, don't fix it." -- me, with apologies to Bert Lantz Save Twin Peaks!!
rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) (03/14/91)
karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: > For the people who think what's happening to alt.sex.pictures is anti-sex > censorship, watch what is happening to alt.fractals.pictures. It, too, > is being "censored", with its connectivity slowly dribbling away... In fact, it may go away faster. I shut it off here when I had to unwedge news and found *one* REELY KUL twit had posted > 4 Mb in a day...as Karl says, it has nothing to do with censorship or morality. We *use* news here; we can't have it wedged up. And alt.fractals.pictures is even stupider than alt.sex.pictures! At least with a.s.p you've got some semblance of real-world data; a.f.p is essentially just program output. Ship the programs and initial data around instead; save two orders of magnitude in what gets transmitted. Think a little. Yeah, you can dodge the barriers that are being set up; people who administer the machines will just move the barriers as needed to keep from getting inundated with gigantic postings they don't want. -- Dick Dunn rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd Boulder, CO (303)449-2870 ...But is it art?
nikolai@guru.pub.uu.oz.au (nikolai kingsley) (04/03/91)
karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: > For the people who think what's happening to alt.sex.pictures is anti-sex > censorship, watch what is happening to alt.fractals.pictures. It, too, hah! thas easy for YOU to type! we don (oops) don't GET alt.sex.pictures here... something to do with not having cable tv, i think... chort! #### # # # # VsyeRossiiskaya Chrezvyychayynaya # # # # # # Comissiya po Borbye s #### #### ### Kontr'revolutsei, Sabotazhem y # # # # # Spekulyatsiyei #### # # # nikolai O:-) (Melbourne)