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Subject: 
Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
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Date: 
Thu, 9 Mar 2000 22:30:57 GMT
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message
news:Fr6974.KAB@lugnet.com...
In lugnet.admin.general, Scott Arthur writes:
I'd like it best if people could personalise and exchange their own
automatic bowdlerizers, and am working toward this.

I suggested self bowdlerisation earlier this week, and was shouted down.

Are we on the same page?

Yes, you suggested something involving bowdlerisation, but what you • suggested
was that auctions

Pre-auction anouncments

be allowed in theme discussion groups and subsequently that
everyone reading those discussion groups be required to self-bowdlerise to
remove the unwanted noise.  (Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what I
heard!)

I said fitering would be easy. I also said filtering, via a prefercences,
_could_ be a option. But that is history now.


Requiring people to self-bowdlerise

I'd argue users do it already.

is very different from giving them the
voluntary option to self-bowdlerise.  It is infinitely more practical to
restrict auction noise to an auction-specific group and let people filter
out that noise as a whole, than it is to allow auction noise in regular
discussion groups and ask people to come up with countermeasures for every
conceivable measure and counter-counter-measure that auctioneers will
devise.

This is not an issue for me anymore.

Scott A



--Todd



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(...) Are we on the same page? Yes, you suggested something involving bowdlerisation, but what you suggested was that auctions be allowed in theme discussion groups and subsequently that everyone reading those discussion groups be required to (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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