crossposted to 5 groups, which are affected by this case. followup not applicable.
- I am currently selecting a Hosting Provider / Project Host... http://case.lazaridis.com/multi/wiki/Host For this larger scale project... http://case.lazaridis.com/multi - An incident within usenet has reminded me to include a very Basic Requirement, which is "Terms of Service / Liberality". - The incident: http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/t2/harassment.html It _seems_ that Mr. Xah Les's account was terminated by dreamhost.com because of a) the inability of several people to detect the interconnections within writings which lead to perfectly valid cross-posts within the usenet. b) the non-liberal and essentially non-professional way of how dreamhost.com deals with abuse complaints. - The accusations of "dreamhost.com" are simply wrong. The behaviour of dreamhost.com looks like a case of "selective ruling", whilst using a right defined within the "Terms of Service" to terminate accounts essentially at free will. Can someone trust his business or even his private activities to a hosting company, which cancels accounts in such a way? I do not: http://case.lazaridis.com/multi/wiki/DreamhostAudit But possibly I am wrong, and all this is just a missunderstanding. - To dreamhost.com: You should install an autoresponder to your abuse email, which reminds people that it is * nearly inpossible to rate the content posted to usenet * neally inpossible to detect validity of cross-posts especially within complex analytical/philosophical writings * other important facts People can then decide if they still wish to send the abuse complain (e.g. can follow a link within the autoresponder). You should additionally make a clear statement, that you do _not_ have the right to cancel acounts _without_ any reason, and that you do _not_ intervene into a persons right to speek within the usenet, without a clear and undoubtable proof of abuse (e.g. court decision, or at least verfication of independend entities or mediators). Additionally, it would be gentle if your company would make a _public_ statement subjecting this case, thus any interested party can verify the validity of the statements. - To Mr. Xah Lee: You should change to a more liberal services provider, one which plays in the "Major League" and which respects free speech. Such a provider would just reject such ridiculous abuse complaints. If, for any reason, you are not able to switch to another hosting provider, please let me know. I will see what I can do for you to keep your free speech up. Additionally, I would like to suggest you to not invest too much time into all this. Better use this time to find people and to react in an organized manner. - To the complaining people: To which 'species' do you belong? http://lazaridis.com/core/eval/species.html Setting up an thread filter: http://lazaridis.com/core/eval/filter.html I have seldom seen a more ridiculous argumentation-line than then "spam/abuse" one. - To anyone: Any form of censorship and "suppression of freedom of expression" should be kept out of from open-source projects and from usenet. It is the within the responsibility of every entity (including commercial companies) to act against it. http://dev.lazaridis.com/base/wiki/LiberalProjectDefinition - - - . -- http://lazaridis.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
