[PLUG] No to moderation

[Grish]

Michael C. Robinson wrote:

>Why do corporations, schools, and small business have standards of what
>can and can't be transmitted through their electronic infrastructure?
>  
>

Because they choose to. PLUG chooses not to. Deal with it.

> 
>Why should I be subjected to the bias of plug?  
>

Because you signed up. If you don't like it, leave. Nobody is forcing 
you to read plug. You signed up voluntarily. You continue to read the 
posts voluntarily. You continue to contribute voluntarily. If you don't 
like it, stop volunteering! If plug is doing you so much harm, why are 
you tolerating it? Why are you contributing to it?

I have some theories, but I'll keep them to myself for now...

>Why should I leave
>because there might be a bias?  
>

Because you're the one that has the problem with "the bias" (which the 
rest of us are, oddly enough, oblivious too, but for the sake of 
argument (sigh), we'll say it exists). The rest of us don't. Flow with 
it or go elsewhere.

>In the end I see I'm not being given
>very many choices here.  
>

Leave or stay. Those are your choices.

Who the hell told you that plug was obligated to give you choices about 
what gets posted to the list? You act like your entitled to them or 
something. Nobody here owes you anything.

>If I kill file the people who respond most
>often, I've basically left anyways.  
>

So why not just take the leap and leave then?

>Kill filing does[n't] offer me any
>way to say I have a problem with what someone is posting, it's just
>ignoring them.
>  
>
This is a technically-oriented (more specifically, linux-oriented) list. 
If your problem with a post goes beyond a debate on technical merits 
("No, you idiot, that answer is completely wrong and will cause six 
nuclear reactors to simultaneously explode!") then you best be replying 
off-list, because I promise, nobody else wants to hear it. If you really 
need to debate that crap in a public forum, feel free to ask for someone 
to create plug-christian-ethics, or whatever the hell it is you think 
you're arguing about. Leave the rest of us to explore technical issues.

By the way, please consider using a spell checker on outgoing email from 
now on. It's quite helpful to those of us who have to wade through your 
spew.

Now go away, bothersome insect.

OVER To a slightly more on-topic topic, just how do you >/dev/null mail 
in procmail? Can I just use /dev/null as a mailbox? Q-Mail vomited last 
time I tried that (though I found the trick to doing it with some 
research - fill the alias file with only a comment). I'd much like this 
thread to end, weather or not people continue to reply to it.

Something like:

:0
* Subject:.*No to moderation
/dev/null

??

Also, can anybody point to any decent procmail documentation? The 
procmail site doesn't seem to have much, and though I've found a few 
good guides out there, none seem to be comprehensive, and always leave 
me with questions.