The "alt.comp.freeware zero_tolerance policy" "The good people on ACF fighting Cultism WILL prevail" Different opinions and points of view are always welcome, that is the essence of healthy debate. But lies, personal attacks and malicious allegations are not. Those who initiate such attacks are to blame, not those who defend themselves. The standard of posting on ACF has deteriorated a lot in the past 12-18 months as the Pricelessware Cult and its coterie of 'useful idiots' lose ground and resort to ever more desperate smears against those who they perceive are a threat to their hegemonic control of this newsgroup. They will stop at nothing to denigrate and smear people on their hate lists, some even resort to forging newsgroup posts of other people and try to pass the blame onto their most hated. Trickery is their dirty game. They are nasty cowards and pathological liars and they know who they are without listing them all, but the "worst of the worst" are Franklin, »Q«, Craig, Ron May, iNcReDuLoUs, Yrrah and F.Reeware, all who seize every opportunity to post lies and attack others. Their slime is akin to the Goebbels BIG LIE: "repeat a lie often enough and people believe it". Anybody who opts out of the Pricelessware Cult or takes a neutral position is at risk of being nastily attacked. This happened to at least one person. There is a reason why these Pricelessware Cultists are so nasty and protective of their power-base on ACF. To understand what this is, see: "Pricelessware $Racket$ Exposed". _____________________________________________________________________ Meanwhile, zero tolerance is simple. Here's how it works: Whenever one reads any post of theirs, the first lie, smear or blatantly dishonest statement that appears, the rest is binned unread: [rest binned unread] It means 99.9% of the time one never gets past the opening sentence of Franklin's endless psychoslime! It will upset them, that their carefully constructed lies and smears are being binned unread. That's good. Others are recommended to do the same. Help to ostracise the filth!