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Old November 17th 07, 07:38 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Tom Gardner
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Default Crazy loons

On Nov 17, 7:31 pm, raulb wrote:
Can't Google or whoever is hosting this site do something about
getting rid of that crazy loon's persistant postings? This is a
glider site, not paranoia central!


Unfortunately not, since this is usenet not a website. Or, to be more
accurate, it is a web-interface to usenet. It is an excellent example
of "the internet interprets censorship as damage, and routes around
it".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet states
One notable difference [between usenet and] a BBS or web forum is
that there is no central server, nor central system owner. Usenet is
distributed among a large, constantly changing conglomeration of
servers which store and forward messages to one another. These servers
are loosely connected in a variable mesh.[clarify] Individual users
usually read from and post messages to a local server operated by
their ISP, university or employer. The servers then exchange the
messages between one another, so that they are available to readers
beyond the original server.