[PLUG] PLUG vs. PLUG

Brian Beattie beattie at beattie-home.net
Mon Jan 19 14:15:02 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 17:06, Cliff Wells wrote:
> Brian Beattie wrote:
> 
> >You are a lot more to the point than I.  The one thing that is clear to
> >me from my 15 (?) years of exposure to Usenet/Internet mailinglists is
> >that any artificial attempt to manage the SNR will be either 1)
> >ineffective or 2) destroy the creativity of the community.  The free
> >flow of ideas is either free or neat, never both.  Me I'll take free.
> >  
> >
> But apparently your definition of freedom doesn't include the ability 
> name your own user group.

Have I atempted to stop anybody form naming their own group?  That is
just silly.  Simple criticism is an attempt to prevent somebody from
doing something?

You are just as free to defend the choice as I am to criticize it, that
is how a free exchange works.

No wonder the PDXLUG list is so tight.
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