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From: williamt@athena1.Sun.COM (William A. Turnbow)
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Subject: Re: Updated Call for Votes: talk.religion.pagan
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Date: 17 Jan 90 17:02:39 GMT
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Reply-To: williamt@sun.UUCP (William A. Turnbow)
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In article <961@thor.wright.EDU> spotter@eve.UUCP (Steve Potter) writes:
>In article <130316@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> williamt@sun.UUCP (William A. Turnbow) writes:
>>In article <9698@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>>>        between the moderator and any other party). (The
>>>        moderation is only included because that seems to
>>>        be the _only_ way to ensure that off-charter attempts
>>>        to prosyletize are not posted).
>>>
>I'm afraid I have to agree with Tim on this one.  It does clearly state
>that moderation is only to be used "to ensure that off-charter attempts
>to prosyletize are not posted."  That sounds exactly like a clear
>statement of the use of moderation.
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	Prosyltizing is off-charter, yet it doesn't say that only off-charter
messages of the type 'prosyletizing' will be weeded out.  Prosyletizing is
an example of of an off-charter subject matter that would be moderatated.

	If you have a rule A, and rule B is a subset of rule A,
	then if you apply rule A and rule B, 
	then you end up with rule A being the final rule (since B is only
	a subset of A anyway).

	This is basic logic or set theory.  

	To give another example.  If you have a law saying murder is illegal,
and the law state that this is to prevent people from shooting each other,
that doesn't mean that killing via a knife is acceptable.

	In the same way if off-charter messages are 'illegal', and the charter
states that this is to prevent prosyletizing type messages, this doesn't
mean that off-charter messages about football scores are acceptable.

-wat-

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