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Date:         Sun, 09 Apr 1995 18:04:05 PDT
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Josh Poulson <jrp@plaza.ds.adp.com>
Subject:      [/f+++++++++] Re: restraint in postings 

Will says: > Joshua says: > >Once you advocate restraint, or enforce it, it can no longer be called > >"open dialogue". It becomes "moderated discussion" either if the authors > >moderate it, or someone else does.

> I have to disagree here. Restraint is entirely appropriate. Dialogue > without restraint would degenerate into a brawl. I didn't see the > offending post, but there are plenty of places on and off the net to > be offensive.

"I don't like what you're saying, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

Admittedly we SHOULD try to keep within the charter*. :)

However, you are making quite an assumption that a world without restraint is necessarily a world of conflict. After all, Usenet and Internet email are precisely that... almost entirely reliant on self-restraint. Yet most people are perfectly fine, and the jerks are made to feel unwelcome. In our particular case the postings were not made by jerks... and I don't think they deserve the tongue-lashing that was meted out.

The offensiveness fell within the charter, though... as Fridays are a free-for-all.

If there is some plan to change all this, let me remind you that if we are going to live in Disneyland, please require the alligators to have rubber teeth. :)

*ObVW: A rusty VW in the back yard with lawn seed is called "Ghia pet".

------------ Joshua R. Poulson, Systems Engineering, ADP Dealer Services, Portland, OR


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