On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 10:20 AM Petite Abeille <petite.abeille at gmail.com> wrote: > > Chip Rosenthal's classic "Reply-to Munging Considered Harmful" > > Let him rest in peace. > "Death will not release you. (Even if you die.)" --rule 0 of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society (Has he in fact died since 2016? He has a common name, but I can't find anything that looks like an obituary.) ?Considered Harmful? Essays Considered Harmful > https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html I respond to that with the two laws of FidoNet: 1. Thou shalt not be excessively annoying. 2. Thou shalt not be too easily annoyed. > > Mailing list software is not "the author of the message". > > What's the PURPOSE of a mailing list but to foster DISCUSSION? > True. But not all discussion is best held in public. Some is off-topic, some would offend certain list members, some is potentially slander. In any case, this is a religious issue, and I have no desire to start a religious war, so this is my last post on this topic. John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org Heckler: "Go on, Al, tell 'em all you know. It won't take long." Al Smith: "I'll tell 'em all we *both* know. It won't take any longer." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20201204/5df3 84ea/attachment.htm>
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