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From: prabhu@nas.nasa.gov (Dinesh K. Prabhu)
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Subject: Censorship and soc.religion.eastern
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Date: 24 Oct 90 07:41:40 GMT
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  Well folks, it is time for our first controversy.

  A while back I had censored an article written by Mr. Zenith and we have at
  least one unhappy netter (I am understating it) now. I had censored it because
  I felt that the s-word was not particularly pertinent to the discussion. In
  retrospect, the idea of censoring the article was bad and was an error in
  judgement. My apologies to any of you that feel strongly about censorship of
  articles. I will not censor any more articles if they contain "offensive"
  words, I will simply reject them and have the contributors "clean" them up.

  What do you feel about this issue ? Is it alright to accept articles that
  contain "colorful" (for lack of a better word) language ? The author of the
  article in question claims to have used just such language as a "spiritual
  analogy".

  Anyways, this is a sort of local referendum. So please send me e-mail on
  this issue and I will summarize the results (not just yes/no votes but
  opinions also) of this ten days from the date this article is sent from my
  site, i.e., the referendum ends midnight Friday, Nov. 2, 1990.

  Regards

  Dinesh