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  Re: Profanity (was Re: Lego(r) Master Maniac designation?)
 
Also sprach Moz (Chris Moseley): : For instance, RTL is a venue that allows, even encourages, completely : free expression. If you can't post within reasonable bounds then perhaps : RTL is more your cup of tea than LugNet is? That's the thing, (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Profanity (was Re: Lego(r) Master Maniac designation?)
 
Beaker wrote in message ... (...) That's not really the issue - you keep saying "like" and "can live without" but at the same time you insistently argue against a ban. Would it mean that much to you to have this area declared a clean zone? The more (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Profanity (was Re: Lego(r) Master Maniac designation?)
 
Also sprach Moz (Chris Moseley): : That's not really the issue - you keep saying "like" and "can live without" : but at the same time you insistently argue against a ban. Would it mean A ban is almost always a poor alternative to a sensible and (...) (26 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Profanity (was Re: Lego(r) Master Maniac designation?)
 
Beaker wrote in message ... (...) How so? Even I could write a simple filter script to detect and reject a list of banned words for the news environments I've seen. And I don't see how having such a list is "intellectually limiting" - if anything (...) (26 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Profanity (was Re: Lego(r) Master Maniac designation?)
 
(...) Keep in mind, If someone desires any kind of filtering or censoring, they'll have to do it themselves at the client end. For legal reasons, it's never going to happen at the server end, either manually or automatically. Doing so opens things (...) (26 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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