Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl00669)

At 09:04 AM 5/11/96 -0400, you wrote:
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>On Sat, 11 May 1996, Michelle Donald wrote:
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>> Hi all
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>> in fellowship
>> Michelle
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>> BTW the imp in me has seriously contemplated forwarding copies of all
>> personal off topic messages to the sender ;-) May be it the
>> retorgrade mayhem in May.
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>	A very good practical idea which will work. If all do the same,
>soon the sender will be overwhelmed by messages. This reminds me of a
>recent message I read. This guy is sending a business promotion messages
>to all the maillists - you do not see it here because you cannot post a
>message unless you are subscribed -- and wants you to fax him a message
>to a  toll free number. Someone who got fed up, because he was sending
>the same message under different names, sent a message 500 pages  long -
>each page being the same and ran up the phone bill and got even.
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>	....doss
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>To Michelle and Doss:

Don't you think you're generating a tempest in a teapot? It takes perhaps a
half a second to delete a "one liner", or if you find one person does only
"one liners' you can filter them.There are a number of people on this board
who obviously find their banter a friendly kind of connecting link and get
something of value from it. If others don't, deletion is easy and quick.
Basically, I fear that what you're actually thinking about is censorship of
content and that is a basic American "NO-NO". Who has the right to decide
what is "on-topic" and what is "off-topic". I know I don't, and I certainly
won't cede the right to anyone else. I strongly doubt if anyone on this
board will be broken financially by the cost of the telephone time it takes
to delete a "one-liner".

alexis