Subject: RE: Profanity on the List
jsaam@mcc-cpa.com
Date: Fri Dec 28 2001 - 16:34:25 AKST
Just an idea here --
How about making a script that parses the messages that get posted? Then
replacing the "no-no" words with cute little characters... :)
We're all about automation aren't we? Not that we shouldn't watch what we
post, but hey.. Just in case someone slips :-)
Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: arthur@corlissfamily.org [mailto:arthur@corlissfamily.org]
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 3:30 PM
To: Joshua J. Kugler
Cc: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: Re: Profanity on the List
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
>
> I would consider this a valid rule of thumb: if in doubt, don't say
> it.
> There are plenty of ways to express yourself without using profanity.
>
> j----- k-----
While I agree with you in principle -- a good communicator doesn't need
profanity to get the point across -- I would also have say that I think
people should be a little less thin-skinned. To take a free speech
perspective: no one has a right *not* to be offended. Furthermore, most
speakers of profanity (as a former Marine, I can cuss a bluer streak than
anyone when
provoked) don't use them consciously. As a previous poster pointed out,
it's common vernacular in some environments.
I would propose *not* summarily booting people from the list *unless* the
problem is endemic. A more reasonable way to combat the use of profanity is
to appeal to everyone's desire to control how they are percieved.
Barring such a policy, I can imagine that my days on this list are numbered.
Especially given my opinion of those whiners who are provoked by every idle
and isolated comment not directed at them to begin with. To those without a
legitimate gripe, I would be incline to tell them to kiss my. . . well, you
get the picture. ;-)
One last point for those not clued in: if you find someone's speech
consistently offensive, don't whine about it, simply send every e-mail from
or to them to /dev/null. You're on a UNIX platform, for crying out loud,
use the tools at your disposal.
Don't try to force your sensibilities on the rest of us who may not share
your sense of emergency in the situation. . .
--Arthur Corliss
Bolverk's Lair -- http://arthur.corlissfamily.org/
Digital Mages -- http://www.digitalmages.com/
"Live Free or Die, the Only Way to Live" -- NH State Motto
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