From: cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Subject: Re: Newsgroup Vandalism (was: Re: alt.cascade anyone? (was Re: Aaaaaaaiiiieeeeee...))
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 05:10:19 GMT

In article <1992Apr12.163843.28880@panix.com> gcf@panix.com (Gordon Fitch) writes:
>cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin):
>
>>You're a babbling fool.
>
>Sure, but that's off the subject.

I'm sorry.  I must apologize for my vicious and uncalled-for attacks on your
sexual morals, which are certainly not depraved, and in particular retract
any scurrilous remarks I may have made on the subject of water buffalo and
shaving cream, for which I have absolutely no evidence.

>I thought it would be interesting to ask why alt.postmodern and
>certain other groups are vandalized by having hundreds of
>"cascade" articles posted in them and others -- like, say,
>comp.protocols.tcp-ip -- are not.

Like, duh.  The people who post to cascades are, by and large, silly.  Silly
people read alt.drugs, alt.slack, talk.bizarre, and even alt.postmodern (when
they're after a good laugh). Silly people don't read comp.protocols.tcp-ip,
except when stricken by fits of insomnia.

You don't exactly have to be Jacques Derrida to get this.

>Effacing a newsgroup is a political act.

Once upon a time, the anthropo-socio-semio-critico-psychology nexus (a
bloated & bletcherous cyst upon a lesser milk-duct of Uncle Sam's Tit, which
thus freed from the need to feed itself has refined to perfection the art of
spewing vaporous pus) had Sex on the Brain. This lapsed in the 60s, as all
the old Freudians died off and the rest took advantage of the Sexual
Revolution to finally Get Some.  Now all they seem to have left is Politics;
trenchant critics like the great Todd Gitlin and our own mighty Gor-Don
Fitch can discover the taint of Politics in even the most innocent of
orifices.  Our hats go off to them.

>the effacers deprive others of the use of the newsgroup

Your literalism is so touching.

>in effect taking power over them in that particular area.

Aha!  Now I see it.  Zese loathsome "cascades" haff a disempowered
underclass formed of ze innocent & oppressed readers of alt.postmodern.  But
not to fear!  Ze underclass can itself empower by responding vith ze tactics
of ze evil capitalist majoritarians.  Sublimate your subliminal fears by
assaulting talk.bizarre, ze evil nexus of zis dread conspiracy, with a
deadly salvo of your own destructive cascades.  Shocked by zis proletarian
rebellion, zey will instantly capitulate.

>Evidently some newsgroups, or rather, the people who want to use them, have
>valid rights, and others don't.

No.  All newsgroups have valid rights, but some are too fuzzheaded to know
what to do with them.  Heck, it's surprising you people can hit the toilet
when you piss, let alone post news properly; no shock that a few nonsense
articles drive you into a frenzy of fear and confusion.

>Since your contempt for my writing seems uninformed, I won't
>reply further except to note that you haven't answered any of
>the questions I posed or implied except in the most superficial
>manner.

Ding!  On the money there, Gordo; now ask why.

Ah, heck, I'll tell you why.  It's true, I'm laughing at you; not because
you're funny, but because you're a little sad, in a pathetic sort of way.
Offhand (this is your daily clue), I can't imagine anything more pathetic
than being serious about something silly.  (This is your cue for a real
snappy repartee.)

>I don't know what's been going on in alt.drugs, but alt.postmodern has seen
>hundreds of these articles already, and they're still coming.

Well, if you expended your energies in learning how to killfile them,
instead of deconstructing them, you might have an easier time of it.  Doncha
think?

c
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