On 25/09/2019 14:45, Nick Andre -> David Drummond wrote:

 DD>> Could it be that their hobby is trolling in Fidonet? Just because
something
 DD>> does not appeal to you doesn't mean that it doesn't appeal to others.

 NA> Maybe my new hobby should be writing a program to randomly slam the
Fidonews
 NA> echo with thousands upon thousands of random insults directed towards the
 NA> operator of Lee's system?

You could do that - just as you could do many other things.

 NA> Each post will have a random name, and quite possibly random kludge lines,
 NA> addressing, etc. Because clearly it is not necessary to be a nodelisted
system
 NA> to participate here?

That is true. This echo is read/writeable to all.

 NA> And I could gate Fidonews to many Usenet groups while I'm at it...

If you wish. There is nothing anyone can do to stop you.

 NA> After all, its just free speech, right? And I'm sure you wouldn't mind
hitting
 NA> the Next key thousands of times to skip all my crap?

I'm sure we'd find a way to filter it - or just drop the echo.

 NA> I openly challenge anyone to try and stop me or filter me if I did this. I
can
 NA> totally usurp this echo and *nothing* can be done to stop it.

Are you suggesting that LL should do these things too?

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Regards
David

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