[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Xah Lee schreef: > [...] >> >> If you believe this lobbying to my webhosting provider is unjust, >> please write to my web hosting provider [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Your help is appreciated. Thank you. >> >> Xah >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ∑ http://xahlee.org/ > > We seem to have strayed a long way from Voltaire's > "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your > right to say it.", > but that was of course the age of enlightenment. > Immanuel >
I would have to say +1 for Voltaire. Xah has as much right to post to the newsgroups as I do to skip over them. One of the reasons I enjoy lurking on newsgroups is the passion with which a lot of you speak; however, I do think there are a lot of short tempers flying around. Perhaps its because you've been putting up with this guy a lot longer than I have, but I can't imagine it takes that much effort to skip/block/kill file his posts. It's his as much as anyone else's, and all the while this is an unmoderated medium he has the *right* to say as he pleases. That said, if the ISP is kicking you off, it should be because you have broken a TOC. IF you don't think that that is the case, then that is your beef with them. Secondarily, all these essays end up on your site anyway, so why post the whole thing /again/ on the newsgroups when you could just link to the page, perhaps with a brief summary. Will that not A) still allow you to advertise the essays B) Save resources rather than copying everything twice and C) Piss less people off? I'm sure you aren't worried about pissing people off, but when it results in you getting kicked from your ISP, this just seems so much more sensible an answer. My 2 cents. P.S. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Summary) says: <quote> Article 19. Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. </quote> http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html This debate boils down to whether or not he has broken the ISP's TOCs, nothing more. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list