From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 5 13:29:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1BB3737B423 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 13:29:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 2197 invoked by uid 100); 5 May 2001 20:29:17 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15092.25245.522296.661709@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 15:29:17 -0500 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Publishers attacks on public rights. In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010505100806.04406ce0@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010505095934.04417930@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010504213229.043f5460@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010504122121.04699dc0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010504093633.045b1850@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010504091914.0467d5b0@localhost> <15090.43795.549818.410213@guru.mired.org> <15091.47616.961220.499572@guru.mired.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010505100806.04406ce0@localhost> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass types: > At 10:05 AM 5/5/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > >Brett Glass said on May 5, 2001 at 10:02:15: > >> Nonsense. However, by advocating moderation, > >Am I the only one who finds this hilarious? > Extremists often try to brand those who advocate > moderation as being extremists themselves. It's > a "spin" tactic that those who think critically > are able to see through. This just gets funnier and funnier. Brett is right - and makes a *perfect* example of the kind of thing he's talking about. He's by far the most extreme person on the list, and also one of the first who brands more people as "extremists zealots." http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message