Joshua says:
>Once you advocate restraint, or enforce it, it can no longer be called
>"open dialogue". It becomes "moderated discussion" either if the authors
>moderate it, or someone else does.

I have to disagree here.  Restraint is entirely appropriate.  Dialogue
without restraint would degenerate into a brawl.  I didn't see the
offending post, but there are plenty of places on and off the net to
be offensive.

Will