From: Brendan Coffey (bmc@section9.net)
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 12:11:47 MDT
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 10:13:25AM +0200, Hubert Mania wrote:
> > But I'd call it a filter; what you are doing, after all, is filtering the
> > list.
>
> No, it's filtering *people*.
>
Exactly--and I know with acceptable probability that I have no interest
in, and will derive no value from, what those *people* have to say.
The way I don't have the time or the inclination to listen to the
pitch of every panhandler on my block on the way home from work (I
live on Haight in SF, so this is a considerable number of individuals),
I also have neither the time or the inclination to read the arrogance
and vitriol of certain members of ANY group forum like this extro list.
We all have to deal with a copious volume of personal communication.
Some of it is of value, some is not.
I'm not typically one for breathless technofetishism, but blessed be
the killfile. It's a monstrously powerful and wonderful tool.
> 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.
>
But actively spreading the meme complex isn't everyone's agenda (in fact,
by your own statement, it isn't even yours). I'm here because it exposes
me to a lot of interesting developments in science and technology, because
I hope to live in a time where we see dramatic human life extension,
because I believe that humans should have the right to the access,
modification and extension of their own bodies, minds, genetic codes.
I don't assume that everyone in the world does, should or will share
these opinions.
> The very existence of killfiles and the very choice of this word might be
> taken as an insult.
>
As an insult to whom?
-bmc
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