SF-IMC ERASED MY ARTICLE!

Are you upset since you can't spam this site with hundreds of the same article. It is not even that those of us hiding these articles find that particular article that bad, its just that someone jumping ips, posting over and over again with slight changes in headers etc.. isnt exactly an innocent user posting their views. Spam is illegal and most ISPs will revoke your acount if they find you spamming a site (same as if you were spamming an email address). Sending hundreds of the same article to a site is clearly spam, no matter what the article looks like.

Even though we don't record ips we can see ips comming in, so if this continues to be a problem and we see a huge batch of the same article comming in from your ip, we will contact your ISP. Your ISP keeps logs of who is logged into each ip address so they should be able to monitor your spam and shut down your account.

Spam is a pork-ish concoction sold in canned form, what do you mean by it?

I'm busy. Go ask your mother.

from http://www.m-w.com

Main Entry: 1spam
Pronunciation: 'spam
Function: noun
Etymology: from a skit on the British television series Monty Python's Flying Circus in which chanting of the word Spam (trademark for a canned meat product) overrides the other dialogue
Date: 1994
: unsolicited usually commercial E-mail sent to a large number of addresses

Keyword in that definition is "commercial". Was the article trying to sell a product? If not, then it's not spam.

Not to mention that the unsolicited criteria doesn't pertain either. IndyMedia certainly solicits articles.

The plain truth is that this forum is primarily a propaganda machine for the radical left. Anyone who doesn't recognize that after a brief review of the topics and opinions is an idiot. Recognize IndyMedia for what it is. The boardops and the collective have an agenda, and it's not a popular one. They will censore adverse opinion and make ideal threats against the oppostion. Truth is, their hands are tied if they want to continue to present this propaganda in this format. They HAVE to take the good with the bad.

Hey,Collective! I laugh at your idle threats of trying to have someones ISP revoked for spamming your propaganda machine! Har!

Good luck trying to prove it you schmucks. Why not make me your first. I'm frequently accused of spamming IndyMedia and I have no intention of stopping. I'm on a mission.

Just in case you didnt realize you agreed to something similar to this when you got online here is a section of the use policy from Pacbell(most ISPs have similar policies):

Disruptive Activity - any activity that is apparently intended to disrupt Members' enjoyment of the Interactive Feature, including:
scrolling - repeatedly entering either meaningless characters, three or more repeated blank lines, the same text three or more times, or consistently repeating text in a Chat room;
spamming - sending of large numbers of e-mail, and e-mail ads in particular, to numerous e-mail users; or blanket postings to the same newsgroups;
off-topic activities - posting notes or articles to any Chat room, Newsgroup, Mailing List or similar forum which are off-topic.

Harassment - targeting others, with the apparent intention of causing distress, embarrassment, or other discomfort. Examples of this include expressing personal attacks on members and nonmembers; sending more than ten similar messages to the same e-mail address; or sending more than 1M bytes of data to a newsgroup.

You imply that the article was posted over and over without reason. The reason the article was posted multiple times is because you losers kept deleting it. It was not spam, it was not porn, it was simply an article with a slightly different point of view than what is apparently allowed on this site. Take a look in the hidden files and judge for yourself. It's by Rory Miller and is entitled UC Berkeley: A Safe Harbor for Hate. A little too much for the collective I presume.

Perhaps you didn't notice that one of the couple of dozen copies of the article you attempted to flood the newsire with is still on the front page, as are single copies of several other lifts from far-right columnists.

Watching the wire and the hidden page for a couple of weeks clearly shows that someone, or group of someones, has repeatedly tried to push everything off the front page by posting a plethora of copies of the same thing. That's an obvious attack against the site, there have been multiple such incidents in the recent past, and it's hardly surprising that the newswire clerks have become rather touchy about flood attempts.

Your trying to render the wire useless for people who you don't happen to agree with makes your cries of "censorship" appear rather hypocritical. They're also a remarkable example of one of the characteristic personality defects of the American far right: projection. Go to a right-wing Web site like Free Republic, post something that goes against the grain of the party line there, and see how long it is before you get banned.

What you accuse Indymedia of doing is something which your kind does constantly. That's the living definition of "projection".

You're not gonna win here, troll. Your tantrums are good for a bit of amusement, perhpas they provide you with a little relief from your terrible feelings of impotent rage, and that's all they're likely to accomplish.

People do indeed get TOSed by ISPs for exactly the kind of behavior you've been exhibiting, so, unless you manage to learn a modicum of self-control, don't be surprised if it happens to you.

Posts from
http://www2.bestofberkeley.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000634.html
and
http://www2.bestofberkeley.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000636.html

"get over there and flood them! find any conservative article, or meaningless gibberish, and continually post it to their site."

"Post some phony events. Disguise it so it looks real. Say there is some protest this weekend in SF or Berkeley, or a meeting or whatever. Then they won't know if it's spam or something real.
Post lots of events. and anything else you feel like. Keep their censors busy.
Some good fake names to post under, that are used by other leftist morons there, are:
jesse
nessie
righteous babe
or any other stupid leftist or ethnic sounding name you want.
"

"I've really enjoyed sharing highlights from the North Korean News with the folks over at sf.indymedia.org.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/index.htm
It's really a riot!
"

"I think I shut their site down! (at least temporarliy)
Are you able to access it?
"

"
VICTORY AGAINST THE LEFT! INDYMEDIA.ORG PUBLISHING SHUT DOWN!!!!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!! It looks like the idiots over at sf.indymedia.org have been forced to TURN OFF THEIR PUBLISHING FEATURE FOR ALL CITIES, due to the influx of very useful information about our Peerlessly Great Comrade Kim Il Sung.
"
Now we do have an ip and time stamp form this guy since we had to make the web server block his ip. So, if he acts up again, this seems like its good legal proof of harassment.
At least we can have his ISP and yahoo accounts shut down (hes http://www.geocities.com/yatrimblo/ on Yahoo)