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> Could asstroturfing become open sourced?
> ----------------------------------------
>
> Of course it can!
>
> The process is as follows:
>
> 1. All asstroturfers will register their full names and addresses,
> the socks they use and which newsgroups they rant in.
>
> 2. The asstroturfers will provide a full list of posts they have
> made in the past and how much money they received for it.
>
> 3. The asstroturfers will then provide a list of bosses, their
> names, addresses and the companies through which funding has
> been channeled. Like terrorists, we need to understand the funding
> routes to locate all of the infrastructure.
>
> 4. The asstroturfers will then provide a complete break down
> of their email and communications infrastructure, and donate their
> passwords into open newsgroup discussion channels so that anyone
> can log in and check what is coming down the line.
>
> 5. With the greater transparency for asstroturfing achieved through
> goals 1 to 4, open sourcers can join in by logging into all the
> email systems and view with many eyes and peer review whatever
> is coming down the line.
>
> 6. Having peer revied the asstroturfing material, the open source
> community will then post patches to *nix any and all bad asstroturfing
> posts and have it cleaned and made shiny once again.
>
> 7. This peer reviewed shiny posts will then given to asstrotufers
> who can then post it confident in the knowledge that asstroturfing
> is once again a respectable profession with many thanks to contributions
> from the open source community...blah...blah...blah...whatever.
>
>
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>

What, no "bwahaha, windummy osen unfixable, micoshaft turds" rantages?!
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