"Mike 'Flyin'8'" wrote in message
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Has anyone thought about using a program that looks a certain
individuals name and immediatly issues a usenet message cancel based
upon said users name and the newly posted subject?

As a form of censorship, it would be quite effective if it worked. I
wondered briefly about the cancel-bot messages that've been popping up more
and more frequently.

I vote a resounding "No!" to any form of censorship, especially removing
others's posts from a public forum. Taken to it's logical conclusion, after
removing all messages that any one of us finds offensive will leave us with
exactly nothing left. We'll end up huddled in our darkened homes, talking
only to ourselves. I can already do that without destroying a communication
infrastructure.

Retroactive tagging on subject lines already goes too far as it is, IMO. I
hesitate to say anything at all, simply because it is still your right to
express your opinion in what you post. This is different from defacing or
removing what someone else writes. Just the same, it still reeks of our
impending death as a society. God help us all.