On 23/10/2012 12:24 PM, Doug Freyburger wrote:
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>>> and even less why people nymshift when they're already anonymous. I
>>> think kill filters are stupid, but folks who try to avoid them are
>>> even more ridiculous, and the whole sock puppet thing even more
>>> childish. Usenet is really bizarre.
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> Kill files are a blame-the-victim approach. Any lunatic can post to
> Usenet and it's the responsibility of the reader to deal with the noise.
> The security model is from a by-gone era and has not worked for
> decades. The problem is lunatics know that. It takes being a lunatic
> to want to be read in spite of being filtered but Usenet has drawn
> lunatics ever since posting like a lunatic no longer caused you to flunk
> out of college from your college computer account being pulled.

I don't see how using a KF is a blame-the-victim approach. I am not even
sure who the victim is, whether it is the person whose personality is so
flawed that he/she is compelled to post stupidly and relentlessly, or if
it is the other people whose group is filled with their bile and/or idiocy.