http://www.vix.com/menmag/gagorder.htm

A court order banned someone from posting to a skiing newsgroup in order to end a particularly nasty flamewar. Everybody be nice now, Big Brother is watching.

-- John Ainsworth (ainsje00@wfu.edu), November 14, 1999

Answers

His handle didn't happen to be SWCS did it?

-- Lurky Lurker (lurkerpoo@no.no), November 14, 1999.

Talk about prior restraint! About Echelon! Oh! My!

I guess Seattle P.D. has nothing better to do than harass Newsgroup readers.

See what 100,000 extra cops gets you??

-- Z (Z@Z.Z), November 14, 1999.

I am not confident that really was all about a flame war but rather about banning a mouth on one particular topic.

The death threats can legally be binding. Anyone who mutters a death threat to a resident in CA electronically is in for a big shock. It is followed up on and the individual prosecuted. It came about because of racial "ethnic cleansing" threats arriving in the "unwanted" races e- mail. In CA if you even mutter without real intent off the net, "I'll punch her in the nose" in reference for example about ones childs' school teacher you can be convicted on that. (And no Colin I did not turn you in as a burglar.)

Which is why I must repeat, I am a little suspicious of that gag order. If he issued threats then law enforcement "had" him but instead played censorship Communist Chinese style.

I participate on a newsgroup that is too small and we all get on eachs other nerves as we've known each other online for years. There's never seemingly "new blood." Periodically I run a post that reads under no circumstances will anyone see me at their door, I carry no grudges in surface life, if one did meet me there is nothing to fear ecetera.

-- Paula (chowbabe@pacbell.net), November 14, 1999.

Might I intuit that the KOS method of anger management and conflict resolution by mud wrestling would not be deemed appropriate here?

-- Jay Urban (Jayho99@aol.com), November 15, 1999.