From: pyro@yabbs
To: all@yabbs
Subject: False Ideas Will Kill
Date: Mon Nov 15 17:07:41 1993
I personally think the whole idea of a free information society is invalid 
and dangerous.  Information should not be free.  It is the, in my opinion, 
responsibility  of each and every individual and organization to protec 
their own information, and provide for their own privacy.  It is not the 
responsibility of the Government or any other broad based institution to 
do so for us.

As for sharg of information to help everone become more educated.  Sure, 
this idea has much merit.  But lets face it, spoon feeding does no one any 
good.  Its a two way street, and to effectively have an excahnge of 
information in such a public forum you need a number of people on the same 
intellectual level discussing their views, while a few people may just 
kick back and watch.

But to sit here and read stupid wuestions non-stop all day is annoying.  I 
hate one way streets, and I know a number of other people do as well.  I 
have better things to do with my time than to tutor a bunch of people who, 
in my opinion, are too lazt to try and learn anything on their own free 
will.  So, yes, read a book so you have some concept of what you are 
talking about, then ask questions based on what you have read and what you 
would like to know more about.  But don't simply assume that  because 
there is some false notion of "free information" people are obligated to 
asnwer any neophyte question that gets posted.


Just to carry it a bit farther...  Poeple are so consumed with getting 
resuluts right away.  They do not realize that the people in the hack 
community who do have a large amount of knowledge have been at it for 
YEARS.  They have read every e-zone they have come across, they have read 
books, met people, scoured UseNet, tried things, etc.  Its a LONG PROCESS 
if you want ot be well rounded.  On the other hand, we get people today 
who feel that it is their right, because of this stupid notion of foree 
information,  to know everything that the old elite may know.  Wrong.  
Knowledge cannot be spoon fed into brains full of much.  Each indiviidual 
must take the task of learning to heart and put as much in to it, and even 
MORE in to it,  than those they would have teach them.  Simple.

Well, yet another long post from me.  And filled with typos too.  Neat-0, 
huh?

-The Pyro