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Subject: 
My last word on the profanity debate.
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Sat, 2 Jan 1999 06:40:58 GMT
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beaker@NOMORESPAMpobox.com
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OK, I'm really tired of this debate.  I think the participants have
reached impasse, and unlike most USENET debates I get into, it isn't
fun.  So:

Chris, if I misunderstood your point and over-reacted I apologize.  I've
let this get somewhat personal, and that's my failing.

Todd, I await your decision.  As I said, I will honor it regardless of
how I feel about it.  If I'm truly in the minority on this point, if
something like 95% of users support such a ban, I'll even agree with it,
philosophically at least, even if I disapprove in principal.

To the rest of you, if I've drug this out I apologize to you as well.  I
hope you can understand that my position is a philosophical one.  I'm
not encouraging the worst possible behavior, merely objecting to a
blanket ban on a disputed issue.

/ _ _ / _ _  The high cost of living has not diminished its popularity
()(-(//((-/
============= Jim Baker -- Weather Weasel Extraordinaire ==============



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: My last word on the profanity debate.
 
(...) Just *bleep* make sure it doesn't *bleep* happen again! You *bleep* got that, you *bleep* *bleep* *bleep* *bleep*!! :) (26 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: My last word on the profanity debate.
 
(...) Jim, I don't know that it's really possible to make a meaningful decision. (I hope it is, but I'm not convinced.) Certainly, on the liberal side of the coin, we could say that anything goes -- as on Usenet -- but that would make it much more (...) (26 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: My last word on the profanity debate.
 
Beaker wrote in message ... (...) That's ok, it was more that you seemed to be reacting to what I didn't say. But yeah, I think we're not really gaining ground at this point, and Todd has pretty much said his say, we might as well stop. I suppose (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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