on 1/31/07 3:39 AM, Ray Saintonge at
saintonge(a)telus.net wrote:
I have no problem with the use of spicy epithets
on the mailing list,
and would see no reason to be like television and ban the "seven
words". Where I object is with the use of terms as a clear personal
attack on someone, but I would still give a person time to cool off
before making a big fuss about it.
It's about intent. Is that intent to harm, or simply to grab your attention
and make oneself absolutely clear?
Some find George Carlin intolerably offensive - I find him hilarious. Of
course that may simply be a statement about me :-).
He must have done something right to be allowed to play the conductor on
the children's series, "Shining Time Station."
Ec