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From: nlt@duke.UUCP (N. L. Tinkham)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Inferring consent from silence
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Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 17:06:29 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 25 17:06:29 1985
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   Let me add my voice to those of Jeff Gillette and Charley Wingate:
Silence does *not* necessarily imply consent.  I read many, many
articles in this newsgroup expressing positions with which I disagree
and representing religions or groups within my own religion with
views different from my own.  Only a few are interesting enough to
me to take the trouble to reply (and to reply to the news and mail
replies which may result from my own article) -- perhaps 1/2 of 1%.
Obviously -- isn't it obvious? -- it should not be inferred that I
agree with the other 99.5% of what is posted to net.religion.

                                      N. L. Tinkham
                                      duke!nlt