From: Toto <toto@sk.sympatico.ca>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 19:28:31 -0800 (PST)
To: Lou Poppler <lwp@mail.msen.com>
Subject: Re: Moderated list is missing headers
Message-ID: <199701280328.TAA15369@toad.com>
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Lou Poppler wrote:
> 
> The arguments about imaginary quotes and libel are harder to untangle
> because the moderation process seems to consume the mail headers showing
> the messages' travels before reaching toad.com.  I suggest that these
> headers are signal not noise, and should be propagated if at all possible.
> We have had problems in the past with forgeries, and should retain this
> basic tool for evaluating a message's source.

 The header information, on all of the lists, has been changed in order
to make it more difficult for list members to keep track of what is 
going on behind the Electromagnetic Curtain.
 A simple example is the fact that, originally, a quick glance at the 
header was sufficient to recognize which messages were sorted to the
flames list and were sent out by toad.com from this list. This has
since been changed to make the process of censorship more obtuse.

  Your complaint about it being difficult to 'untangle' certain 
message threads seems to stem from the fact that you have chosen
to receive only a cypher-world-view that has been censored before
you receive it.
  The purpose behind censorship on the list is for the censoring
party to be able to spoon-feed you only what they deem fit for 
you to read. Given the haphazard methods with which the censorship
is being instituted, it is not in the best interest of the censors
to make it easy for the list members to track the course of the
various postings.

Toto