Re: This is ridiculous
Re: This is ridiculous
- Subject: Re: This is ridiculous
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:24:41 +0100
on 12/10/04 10:50 pm, Chris Espinosa at email@hidden wrote:
> On Oct 12, 2004, at 1:16 PM, Martin Orpen wrote:
>
>>> What in either of those two messages is offensive or even potentially
>>> offensive? The only thing I can think of that comes even close is
>>> "Sch*rz"; that's the reason I replaced the "u" with an asterisk.
>>
>> Same thing happened to me last month because I dared to use the term
>> "piss-poor".
>>
>> I'll keep using "piss-poor" because I don't really give a toss if some
>> pencil-necked, pucker-arsed, corporate lacky misses posts from the list.
>
> Apple Computer, on the other hand, does care if its customers miss posts
> and/or digests. Remember that these restrictions are imposed on our
> subscribers by their employers; your fellow list participants are not
> inflicting it on you.
We've been through this before - and ISTR that nobody actually agreed with
that position last time.
If recipients are worried that they are missing messages because of rules
set by their bosses then they are free to sign up using their personal email
accounts.
If they can't be bothered to do this, then they obviously don't share the
same degree of interest in AppleScript that the rest of us do.
Why should we moderate our language to suit some faceless corporation that
is using a Windoze box to determine if our Apple-related messages are
offensive or not?
And why should an international forum have to conform to rules of some US*
corporation's prissy rules. *I'm guessing, but I'm guessing they are...
> There may come a day when that person has the answer to the question you're
> asking, but will never see it. You may then weigh the value of your right to
> express yourself however you like against the value of getting your questions
> answered from the list.
I doubt that!
The answers to my script-related problems normally come from the stalwarts
of this list.
I won't name them for fear of leaving somebody out - but it's the regular
contributors, the people who pop-up on alt.comp.lang.applescript, MACSCRPT
etc, etc who provide *consistently* useful information.
And I'm willing to bet that the recipient who bounced Michelle's message is
more likely to be a leecher or a lamer than somebody who's likely to offer
the kind of help that I'm looking for.
> Chris Espinosa
> No Longer The Listmom
Who is the Listmom?
And why haven't they posted any of the *long* messages that have been held
for *review* because they exceeded the 12k limit?
I'm beginning to doubt their existence...
--
Martin Orpen
Idea Digital Imaging Ltd -- The Image Specialists
http://www.idea-digital.com
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