In uk.rec.sheds,  (Richard Robinson) wrote in
::

>Killfiles, ditto, compared with having the owner of a site decide what's
>distasteful and impose their taste on their dependents/readers. Unnecessary
>power. Perhaps it appeals mainly to the streak of 'this is mine and I want
>things my own way' that so annoyingly doesn't get fed in, eg, newsgroups,
>where no-one has any actual power ower anyone else's input. Next stop,
>BastiNet[tm].

Where usenet is a conversation, a blog is a lecture with hecklers[1].

[1] Including the ability to have them hoicked out and charged with
treason.
-- 
Marc

Structure is not always stricture (Vicki Rosenzweig)