On Fri, October 25, 2013 9:18 pm, David Conrad wrote: [snip] > If you have a commons and one of the users of the commons is peeing all > over the grass so that the sheep won't eat, do you continue to allow that > user entry into the commons? If you don't they're not "commons" anymore. Perhaps the commons are improved if the sheep don't eat the grass and peeing on it is the easiest way to ensure the well-being of the commons. Regardless, this is a piss-poor analogy. The posts in question did not amount to some kind of denial of service attack in the way that peeing on grass resulted in the sheep refusing to eat. And just who are the sheep here anyway? What's up with this chattel arrangement? Dan.