Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/01/04/16:21:35
"DJ Delorie" <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote in message
news:200101041854 DOT NAA24279 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com...
>
> > Am I supposed to subscribe for that mailing list, if I have news
> > groups? Btw, from a good public news server.
>
> No, you only need one. The newsgroup is not filtered, but you will
> get spam from it. The mailing list has nearly all the spam filtered
> out of it, along with offensive posts (and there have been some
> doozies in the past).
>
> > It's not dirty. And a blind filtering of all words that *might* be
> > offensive is not a solution either.
>
> Its offensive and unneeded. I *know* there are children on this list,
Oh, ny Gosh... Children? Really?? How old??? Why????
> and others easily offended, and I will do what I can to keep the tone
> appropriate for them. For the most part, it works very well. We have
> a very high signal-to-noise ratio, and everyone is friendly and
> welcome.
>
> And it's easy to avoid offensive words, too.
Anyway, the only offensive word that was there was with respect to myself
(see subject line :).
Is it really offensive? Or should I refuse to talk to myself because I said
that I'm ... :)
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