Bad language

[Norberto Quintanar]

I'z completesly agrizzle wiff ya. It'z uh slipperizzle slope-izzle
whenizzle ya be allowing certizzle types o' language in. yamsayin' ?

WORD, to your mother's uncle!

--- Harvey Ussery <huboxwood@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >I wrote in my last message:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Ef you see kay nVidia, I say.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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).
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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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