From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Thu May 30 2002 - 15:10:12 MDT
Giu1i0 Prisc0 wrote:
>
> Suppose someone posts here a messages in favor of racism, violence, ...
> (everyone can do that). Suppose someone (maybe the same) forwards the
> message to another person or list (everyone can do that). The final
> recipient would see something like: from: extropians@extropy.org - subject:
> (a racist line) - body: (a racist text). The immediate impression on the
> final recipient is that the racist line and text are statements of the
> extropians list as an entity. This is a very simple way to spread a negative
> impression of the target group. If this were a fairy tale world I would't
> like censorship so much but since things are as they are...
And the list doesn't even need to be public. Lets say you are a SPLC
snoop who is looking for some groups to incriminate for the sake of a
little fundraising PR. You go and join the extropians list, among
others, and post a few racist test messages. If you don't get
automatically unsubbed, you can then publicly claim that Extropians
'tolerate' racism.
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