Re: Filters (was RE: Lee Corbin's Goodbye)

From: Hubert Mania (humania@t-online.de)
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 02:13:25 MDT

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    Emlyn wrote:

    > I support Mark's idea above; I think public killfiles are a great
    > idea; it's > a strong decentralised alternative to moderation.
    >
    > But I'd call it a filter; what you are doing, after all, is filtering the
    > list.

    No, it's filtering *people*. I don't know about your individual eagerness to
    spread the memes of transhumanism. But If you already fail to listen to
    people who were determined enough to subscribe to a transhumanist email
    list, I wonder how much patience you will have with people who never heard
    of this meme complex before. From my point of view you (plural: all people
    with killfiles) already fail at this very first step of a specific email
    list, where people meet to talk about future development and how to realize
    these ideas.

    The very existence of killfiles and the very choice of this word might be
    taken as an insult.

    To refer to killfiles as a generally accepted internet custom does not
    convince me. I always thought we wanted to make it better.

    By the way, as far as I am concerned, I simply want to expand my knowledge.
    That's why I am here. I am no missionary and I am not interested in gaining
    power and influence in society to boost technological or transhumanist
    development.

    > For an implementation, I'd actually like the option to receive all the
    > email
    > from my killfile, but with a tag in the subject like "[filtered]" so thatI
    > can have them automatically shunt them into a different mail folder, as I
    > do like to peruse my killfile occasionally.

    Honestly, I do not understand why you make such a fuzz about ist, adding
    more control procedures, or urging list administrators to implement more
    functions that might make the system susceptible to collapses.

    Why don't you (plural again) just relax and let the news stream into your
    computer and forget about control for a while . . .



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