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Subject: 
Re: Swearing?
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Mon, 3 Jan 2000 18:56:39 GMT
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On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Tony Priestman wrote:

If children and adults are going to coexist here to the satisfaction of
those children's parents, and the adults who contribute, there is going
to have to be some give and take. And probably regulation.

There is already regulation.  It's in the form of the Terms of Use that
you agreed to when you registered to post here.  If you think swearing is
ok, please go and re-read them.

The one you are looking for is in "DISCUSSION GROUP TERMS AND CONDITIONS",
item number 5, and the key words are "obscene", "vulgar", "profane", and
"indecent".

-Laura Gjovaag



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On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Laura Gjovaag (<Pine.SUN.3.96.1000...250.1332G- 100000@eskimo.com>) wrote at 18:56:39 (...) Define. To quote in full: 5. Post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Whoo hoo! One fo my very favorite debates has reared up again! And it's only been a week or so! You really can't tell people not to be "obscene", "vulgar" "profane" or "indecent" and expect them to follow those instructions exactly unless they (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)

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WARNING: this post should not be read by children or those with weak constitutions, as it contains a word that some people have complained about. Look, this is ridiculous. If everyone is going to whinge whenever someone uses a word that *may* be (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)

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