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From: manis@instr.camosun.bcc.cdn (Vincent Manis)
Newsgroups: soc.motss,soc.men,soc.women,alt.flame
Subject: Flamage re Mark Ethan Smith/Netiquette
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Date: 5 Jan 88 06:57:00 GMT
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Not reading any other Usenet group but soc.motss, I'm not cognisant of
(or interested in) the issues involved.  However, I found the language
so offensive that I sent a message to postmaster@killer, requesting that
s/he explain something about netiquette to the poster. I agree with
Steve that there's no point in discussing the merits of the posting,
as we all learned in the Mading case.

I suspect that this would, in general, be a good way of handling
offensive posters.  Simply send a copy of the posting to postmaster on
their system (s/he can see it anyway), with a request that they ask the
poster to cool it a bit.  No reason to waste our bandwidth on soc.motss;
having 10 or 15 such requests arrive at a system is a very good way of
dealing with offensive posts from that system. 

Please let's not get in another dispute about freedom of speech: neither
the U.S. Bill of Rights nor the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
protects other people's right to puke on my shoes.

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