From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 09:59:33 MST
KPJ wrote:
>
> If the member of the Jihad could use a Subject: line qualifier of ``[GUNS]''
> or whatever, then those who find that meme battle irrelevant could simply
> filter them away. Last time the jihaders hit the list, they did not do this.
>
> Would the honourable list members find the ``discussion'' [read: pie throwing]
> tolerable, if they did mark their texts in this manner?
Sure, I can go along with this. If Mike Lorrey, Joe Dees, and anyone
else who wants to play use the JIHAD tag in their subject lines -
whether they're discussing guns or the other guy's simian ancestry -
then the rest of us could stay clear easily enough. Will they do it? I
doubt it. So it's rather a moot point.
For the record, I don't think that the META aspects of this discussion
(as carried on by people who aren't in my killfile) are uninteresting.
Last time around, I did enjoy the discussion of listiquette enforcement
ethics and filtering technologies. So JIHAD shouldn't go together with
META; it should be limited to the boring pie-throwing.
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