Re: Finder f*ck-ups
Re: Finder f*ck-ups
- Subject: Re: Finder f*ck-ups
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:47:25 +0100
on 20/8/05 10:09, Malcolm Fitzgerald at email@hidden wrote:
> So, with that said, I'd like to ask who you are to come charging in
> with your sleeves rolled up? Where's your playground badge? Did god die
> and leave you in charge?
I think that Todd's email address counts as a playground badge.
> This is an international forum. The list's peers are by parts,
> intelligent, talented, humourous, entertaining, shrill, sour, testy,
> hot-headed and opinionated. Some of us are plain and dull. We don't
> always play well together and there are a few nasty words. That doesn't
> seem sufficient to warrant a display of peremptory power. Your
> over-reaction, coupled with your misquotation and wrongful attribution
> leaves a bad taste in my mouth! I think you've displayed very poor
> judgement.
Don't forget to add "top-posting" to that list too - I was shocked to see an
Apple staffer doing that on this list!
We've already been through the nasty words debate on this list. The word
from Apple is that you moderate your language so as not to interrupt the
flow of useful information to the corporate members who monitor (but rarely
post) to the lists.
In fact the only time you realise that they are even members is when you
receive the really annoying "I'm out of the office until..." messages or
declarations that your language is *extensively offensive*:
> MailMarshal Rule: Anti-Spam (Inbound Only) : (SSI) Block Unacceptable Language
> Script Offensive Language (Extensive) Triggered in Body
> Expression: wank OR wanker OR wankin* OR wanks OR wanked Triggered 1 times
> weighting 60
I find it odd that most of the language censorship comes from US businesses.
Isn't there some kind of constitutional thing about being free to express
yourself?
It's extremely bad news when the need to conform to an illegitimate
authority compels somebody to alter another person's post.
--
Martin Orpen
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