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From: clubmac@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Macintosh Users Group)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Strong Language
Message-ID: <703@runxtsa.runx.oz.au>
Date: 19 Feb 90 22:11:39 GMT
Reply-To: clubmac@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Macintosh Users Group)
Organization: RUNX Unix Timeshare.  Sydney, Australia.
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Some people were offended by my use of ONE four-letter word in the Subject line
of a posting to comp.sys.mac.

I am surprised that such a commonplace expletive should offend anyone. Some
people are more moral than their greatest martyr.

When I wrote the offending piece, I was thoroughly sick of seeing the pathetic
trickle of comp.binaries.mac, that averages something like 20K per day, being
polluted with the SIX-PART posting of another revision of MacPassword.

Personally, I look forward to seeing new stuff coming down comp.binaries.mac,
slowly as it does. Another piece of CrippleWare that should NEVER be dispatched
on comp.binaries.mac is GifConverter. I for one am sick and tired of people
asking me how to remove the little 'notice' sitting in the middle of the
conversion window, obscuring and corrupting the graphic obtained from converting
a GIF file.  This kind of program is unnecessary, since it offers NOTHING to
the thousands of Mac users that read comp.binaries.mac. CrippleWare is a
DISEASE that must NOT be encouraged! Every man and his dog will soon be
thinking that it is better to release a crippled version of their 'ShareWare'
(which it no longer is, since it is CrippleWare) and try to extort money from
people, rather than relying on ShareWare fees.

As for Werner Uhrig's comments, they are way out of line. The whole concept
of offensive language is a total farce. There aren't many people who wouldn't
scream an expletive after hitting their thumb with a hammer. The abuse of
comp.binaries.mac with postings of CrippleWare was to me, such a blow.

Finally, as a tally of responses to my offensive message, there were a total
of 15 (just 15!), of which 9 where in favour of my attack upon CrippleWare
postings, although they didn't approve of my language, because it would offend
people. That is  3 times the response I got a few months back when the earlier
posting of MacPassword was made, and I posted a civil objection to it. The truth
is that I had to swear to get my voice 'heard'.

This time, actually give thought to my objections to CrippleWare and the posting
of it to comp.binaries.mac. Don't get your mind entangled in the trivial world
of language.


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