[PLUG] regex help requested

[Percival, Ray]

You may have a point about the AOL and MSN thing. I've never thought about that.
As for Asia I've lived there for at least 4 years since 1990 and my wife is Asian therefore making my children half-Asian. The reason I block Asia and Africa is simply because they have so many open relays and thus a large percentage of spam comes from those two places.

I have offered to help people I know there close these relays they simply are not interested. Leaving me with no choice but to block. Now there are clear reasons also why all of these things tend to generate spam. Let me just say this again. I block these things because that tends to be where spam comes from until your post I had never thought about the poor aspect. It is interesting but not really important to me.

As for welfare I'm all for improving the welfare of people because in the long run it helps me and means they will tend to leave me alone. I'm just not for giving them welfare mostly because from what I've seen that does nothing to improve their welfare. 

So accusing me of hating poor people is wrong I hate spammers. I also happen to have no desire to communicate with people I don't already know. This makes it easy for me to implement aggressive filtering. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeme A Brelin 
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 4:01 PM
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: RE: [PLUG] regex help requested



On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Percival, Ray wrote:
> OK I am a full on misanthrope but how do you get class warfare out of
> that list? I block all of them because they are the source of a great
> deal of all spam. AOL, MSN, and Earthlink are by no means cheap.

Do you really think poor people always buy the cheapest thing?  Check out
the clothes the kids working at your local Taco Bell are wearing.

Consider that these are the largest ISPs and most people have them because
of some false economy from promotions (free 1025 hours, free with PC
purchase, etc.) or inundation through media combined with poor education
and a lack of access to the technical elite.

The perceived necessity of high cost goods and services is one of the
methods by which the poor are kept poor.

The vast majority of the people who use the services you block are poor.  
The reasons WHY that is are actually irrelevant.  The point is that you
are primarily blocking poor people.

> I also block a *bunch* of other neblocks.

Right, like asia and africa where poor brown people live.

> So no I have nothing against poor people having been poor for more
> than a few years I know it sucks.

You know that it sucks to be poor, but that doesn't prove you have nothing
against them.  Hell, you openly state your contempt for all humanity (and
I'm not even going into the self-loathing aspect of misanthropy).

> Now if you want to get into a conversation about welfare I'd think we
> would have radically differing onions.

I can guess your view, certainly.  A misanthrope would have no interest at
all in improving the welfare of people.

J.
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