Our rights in the passive outweigh our rights in the active, as in
night-time generators, loud stereos, clean smoke-free air, and rude postings
to this (or any other inappropriate) list.

You (or I) should not have to take action to not be offended.

Karl

----- Original Message -----
From: "Malcolm Stebbins" <MSTEBBIN@MSVU1.MSVU.CA>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: filtering out off-color jokes, rants, etc - sort of long

> I disagree with the delete-key being a solution for
> offending email to this list (Peter's post).  I'd suggest
> deleting the sender (of offending emails) from this list.
> Yes we all have the right to free speech, but we all have
> the right to ostracize people we find offending.  It is not a
> question of "rights" but rather of who's rights are to
> prevail.  In the past folks have been dropped form the list
> (for being offending) and I (for one) suggest that we keep
> up that policy.  We are here to discuss vanagons, not to
> discuss people, guns, potatoes, prostitutes or arabs or
> jews or conservative or liberals.  This is not jokes.com,
> not prejudice.com, not insults.com,  not misogynist.com
> It's vanagon.com so that's what we discuss here.  m2cw,
> Malcolm
>
> > I usually try to stay out of discussions like this, but I
> > just felt I had to give my input.
>
> me too!!
>