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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Why did NetBSD and FreeBSD diverge?
To: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan)
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 17:52:40 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), reg@FreeBSD.ORG (Jeremy Lea),
	kris@catonic.net (Kris Kirby), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <20010119120655.N11626@physics.iisc.ernet.in> from "Rahul Siddharthan" at Jan 19, 2001 12:06:55 PM
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> > >You mean, you think reading your rants, flames and paranoid
> > >delusions *is* fun?
> > 
> > Another fun aspect of the hazing: those doing it have a
> > tendency to "pile on."
> 
> I'm not hazing.  How could I?  You've been around on the
> FreeBSD lists much longer than me...
> I was perfectly serious, and so is everyone else who you
> think is hazing you.

I agree; Brett is not being hazed, and he already has
membership, even though he has been threatened with being
"banned" from the lists.

Think "blanket party", as punishment for a members violation
of the rules established by the controlling membership.

--

Really, "banning" won't work, unless you are willing to shut
off every open relay, anonymous remailer, and personally
obtained legal account.  At the point of an attempted "ban",
the society would have to be drastically changed, or become
so introspective that the barrier to entry would reduce new
membership faster than attrition could be accounted.

...In other words, there's really no way to "ban" someone
who is really determined, and willing to out-spend you,
unless you are willing to cut your own throat.  The Internet
has no "prison" equivalent.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.


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