bpnjensen wrote:

Krypsis, you are mistaking the internet for something it is not.
There may have been responsibility at one time, but that has
deteriorated to near zero in 2010. The most genteel of subjects now
gets plastered with the verbal detritus of thousands of repressed two-
year-olds who suddenly feel that they've been given a second chance to
act out their infantile fantasies.

It has not been that way since early 1994, when the famous "armenian genocide"
SPAM, followed by the green card SPAM, ruined the internet.

http://www.fact-index.com/s/se/serdar_argic.html

Of course it really started when an Israeli posted his notes from a sealed
room during the first gulf war. (It eventually became a book by that title).
He posted it to what he thought was a usenet group populated by friends,
imagine his shock when it appeared on the front page of the Wall Street
Journal.

Usenet had become front page news.

Geoff.

--
Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM
New word I coined 12/13/09, "Sub-Wikipedia" adj, describing knowledge or
understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the situation.
i.e possessing less facts or information than can be found in the Wikipedia.