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to: Bjrn Felten
from: David Drummond
date: 2006-03-30 18:58:36
subject: The 000 hoax, Chapter XXXIV

Bj”rn Felten -> David Drummond wrote:
 DD>> been running perfectly since day one not suddenly start dialling
 DD>> emergency numbers

 BF>    If it's been running perfectly it just doesn't suddenly start
 BF> dialling emergency numbers.

It may do when someone suddenly starts including them in the nodelist.

 DD>> Why does *your* individual freedom supersede mine?

 BF>    Regardless of the above, you still seem to miss the point, David. Had
 BF> it been just that zone 3 uses a filtered nodelist to fix a non-existent
 BF> problem, nobody outside of your zone would give a rat's ass about it.

 BF>    But when the entire zone 2 has to accept that it's segment *also* is
 BF> filtered, that's what makes some of us protest. Can you give any good
 BF> reason at all, why we should have all our 000-numbers censored in our
 BF> segment, when Malcolm later filters the segment anyway?

 BF>    Don't you think it is a much graver violation of *our* freedom, that
 BF> 6614 zone 2 nodes plus the 690 zone 1 nodes that indirectly get affected
 BF> -- all according to the latest stats -- will have to be sacrificed, on
 BF> the altar of political correctness, because of the assumed stupidity of
 BF> some 20 Aussie sysops? Doesn't *our* individual freedom count at all?

Why inconvenience even 20 Aussies sysops when the IP can be listed
elsewhere that doesn't break anything?

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regards

David

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