Bad language

[Harvey Ussery]

I agree, Atro, that I don't want any Mommies or NetNannies overlooking 
this site, and I don't have any on my system to screen what comes in 
from the list. OTOH, I'm in favor of voluntary restraint when it comes 
to use of obscene language. There are other ways of expressing strong 
opinions. Also, it's a "slippery slope" phenomenon; and the more free 
members on the list feel to use obscene slang, then the more of it there 
will be. I for one would not want to see a lot of gratuitous foul 
language on the site such as characterizes the typical movie these days. 
Not being a prude--I just think that, by and large, avoidance of obscene 
slang is part of keeping to the topic at hand.

Just a "for what it's worth." Cheers.    --Harvey

Atro Tossavainen wrote:

>I am sorry for the following off-topic message.  It is not related to
>Macintosh, or to Yellow Dog Linux, but is tangentially related to how
>one behaves on mailing lists, so here goes.
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>I wrote in my last message:
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>>Ef you see kay nVidia, I say.
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>The unprotected version of the sentence above provoked the wrath of
>the ScanMail system of a subscriber in State College, Pennsylvania.
>The system sent me an automatic notice to say that the message had
>been quarantined.
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>While I am perfectly aware of the vulgar and rude nature of the word
>I used and others of its kind, I would nonetheless make the bold
>suggestion that people who subscribe to any mailing lists should do so
>from accounts not protected by automatic childminders, content-related
>spam filters, etc., and definitely not attended to by autoresponders.
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>When I post a message to a mailing list, all I need to know is whether
>the moderator of the list approves of it.  If they don't, they will
>surely indicate that (for example, by terminating my membership).
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>What I _don't_ need to know is whether one or more of the list members
>did not receive my message because of politikal hyperkorrektness, or
>because they're on holiday and meanwhile, Wendy Flintstone is taking
>care of business, or because somebody's misguided spam filter thinks
>that helsinki.fi must be a spammer domain because it's not in .com,
>.net, .org, .edu or .mil.
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>Sorry about the rambling, but I really am quite bored to tears of
>politikal korrektness and autoresponders of any kind on mailing lists.
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