comp.os.linux.networking

On Apr 11, 3:47 pm, Bit Twister wrote:

> You can take my word that Moe is pretty honest.

I tend not to agree, at least not based on this comment:

"NOTE: Posting from groups.google.com (or some web-forums)
dramatically
reduces the chance of your post being seen. Find a real news server."

> For *me*, it would be a server who's abuse admin would terminate the
> offender upon complaints and provide the ip of the poster in the
> post header. That would allow me to also send abuse complaints
> to poster's ISP to see if I could get his account terminated. :-)

There are huge trade-offs between privacy, abuse handling, and the
availability of human labor. I've seen google strike the balance wrong
in each possible direction more than once.

I've seen no credible evidence that there's this mass of intelligent
people who killfile posts through google. I've been posting through
google and other news servers for many, many years and have seen
google's reach be precisely the same as everyone else's.

I'm not as quick to give up on the value of anonymous speech as you
are, and if you make the administrative overhead of allowing anonymous
speech too high, it will cease to exist. It's very hard for non-free
services to offer anonymous speech because a lot of people have no
anonymous way to pay.

DS