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Date:      Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:15:22 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        spellberg_robert <emailrob@emailrob.com>
Cc:        fbsd_chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [ fbsd_chat ]  Re: What is this forum for?
Message-ID:  <86eiu1ei85.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <4A257D2D.9030803@emailrob.com> (spellberg robert's message of "Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:27:41 %2B0100")
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spellberg_robert <emailrob@emailrob.com> writes:
> notwithstanding your use of a "smiley_face",
>   as far as i am concerned,
>   on any mailing_list or other communications forum accessible by childre=
n,
>   such language is "verboten".

This has nothing to do with children.  It is simply a matter of
politeness.

> one of the several unimpeachable benefits of
>   the american "motion picture production code administration",
>   a/k/a "the hays office" [ after william hays ] or
>   "the breen office" [ after joseph breen ],
>   was that all films were viewable by children.

Only by US standards.  What do you think hurts a child more: to see a
woman's breast or hear the word "fuck", or to see cowboys and indians
(or their modern equivalent) disembowel each other?

DES
--=20
Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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