Re: "Free as in Freedom"

[Ray Nachlinger <ray at ultramarine dot com>]

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Alexander Verhaeghe wrote:

> "It is of course not a threat to point out that
> anything you post here will be permanently
> associated with your name for ever, and that
> there is no way to undo this. This is just a
> statement of fact."
> 
> There is always a way of undoing things, it's simply a
> matter if you want to do so or not, and in this case
> clearly not. I don't see any reason why this
> conversation will be listed by just mailing a couple
> e-mailaddresses which I contacted before numerous
> times and no one responded for the simple reason they
> don't want to. Just delete all e-mailaddresses and
> state clearly that once posted it can not be undone. 
> 
> I'm almost sure that your practices are against the
> laws of privacy. Tomorrow I will check this out, as a
> matter of fact I already did. You have no right to
> publish things without permission. If all this crap is
> ever to be published, no one will believe, gnu.org is
> simply making itself ridiculous by publishing this.
> 
> I just got another mail from Christopher Faylor, which
> "threatens" to block me from sending mail, why not,
> once again so much freedom...
> There isn't even freedom of speech here.
> Do I continue until I'm blocked?
> 

  Freedom cuts both ways. You have the freedom to 
  shoot off your mouth, everybody has the right
  to listen! Now, you want to shoot off your mouth
  and remain anon. what country give you such right?
  The right to privacy is not a traditional right in
  the US. It is something that has been created in
  the last decade to protect those that are week.