Re: FW: APNIC's Censorship (Was: Re: Removal from APNIC lists)

[jnc at ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)]

    From: Karl Denninger <karl at mcs.net>

    I simply fail to believe that you, or anyone else who meets your "clueful"
    criteria is incapable of applying their own filters to prevent Mr.
    Fleming, or anyone else, from taking up their time UNLESS THEY WANT TO.

Perhaps you skipped over a clip in my original message, which I consider quite
important, which I here reproduce:

    > Further, the people most susceptible to Flemings lies, red herrings,
    > and fantasies, the people who are new to the Internet, are generally the
    > people who have the least understanding about how to employ filters.  In
    > some cases, the new individuals are government representatives or are
    > otherwise in positions of power.  Given Fleming is filtered by most
    > people who don't have too much time on their hands, what results is
    > a one sided Fleming-tinged view of various facets of the Internet.  Thus
    > you have the problem that the very people who most likely need accuracte
    > information are unable to obtain it as those who could give a more
    > accurate view of reality are precisely the one who have either
    > unsubscribed or who delete Flemgrams pre-sight.

I certainly subscribe to this view, and I expect a lot of other people do too.

    Now, if you're in a public oversight capacity, there's a second problem -
    you probably have a *duty* to at least read this kind of material, even if
    you do nothing with it.

Perhaps - but that has nothing to do with that I'm concerned about, which
David has very ably stated above.


    think for a minute about what happens if Mr. Fleming is actually right

Oh, good grief, Karl - can I sell you a meteor helmet, too?

There are enough intelligent people out there that the chances that Fleming
has stumbled across something that everyone else has missed are somewhat
smaller than your getting hit on the head with the aforementioned meteor.

And before you say it, this is nothing like Hobson and Baker ignoring
Ramanujan's letter: I *have* read quite a few of Fleming's contributions.
Which is how I have reached the conclusion immediately above.

	Noel