>>>>NOTE AND APOLOGIES: This post may appear multiple times ... one of
>>>>the groups I'm posting it to is apparently auto-killing submitted
>>>>posts. Cowardly weasels.
RTFM.
Why don't you email Skirvin and ask him what happened to your original
post? For one, Skirvin's bot does not allow cross-posting. This ban on
cross-posting, along with other filter rules, is based on the
multiple-hierarchy flame-war that spread out from
alt.philosophy.objectivism involving an idiosyncratic (as if it were
possible to be more idiosyncratic) cultish off-shoot brand of
Objectivism known as Neo-Tech:
http://www.killfile.org/~tskirvin/faqs/hpofaq.html
HPO is controlled by a moderation bot, which is maintained
by an impartial operator. Messages are automatically posted, based
on the following criteria:
o The message is posted only to HPO, and is not crossposted to
any
other groups;
o The message is not an encoded binary message;
o The message is formatted to have 80 or less characters per line
of text;
o The message contains less than 80%% quotes from previous
messages;
o The message is not related to any subjects that have been
deemed
off-topic by the moderator, and;
o The message is not authored by any that the operator feels have
violated any of the above rules repeatedly or maliciously.
Commercial advertising and discussion of Neo-Tech are
specifically off-topic for HPO. Also, morphing (changing your 'From'
line) to avoid killfiles is a bannable offense.
Appendix B: Why ban Neo-Tech?
Before HPO was created, the only major Objectivism-related
newsgroup was alt.philosophy.objectivism. An unmoderated newsgroup
in a volatile hierarchy, this group was long the target of large,
crossposted threads. The amount of effort required to create a new
group, however, was enough inertia that, for years, nothing ever came
of the need.
Neo-Tech changed that. Neo-Tech, a self-proclaimed offshoot
of Objectivism, one day began to crosspost its articles into APO;
soon, the traffic was significantly higher, much of it over NT.
Several flamewars started, spreading into other newsgroups and
hierarchies; the Neo-Tech mailing list was gated to APO, long essays
were posted daily, and finally several NT'ers posted messages
officially "declaring war" on Objectivism and APO.
These incidents provided the catalyst for the creation of a
new group, humanities.philosophy.objectivism. Under the charter,
Neo-Tech/Zonpower was officially banned from the newsgroup, in
order for the rest of the regulars to have a forum where they could
discuss all other aspects of Objectivism without interruption. This
ban has been extremely controversial, but it is absolute: no
discussion of Neo-Tech or Zonpower is permitted on
humanities.philosophy.objectivism.
