On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:37:11PM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote: Blasphemy is as offensive as lewdness. He is still trying to deliberately provoke and offend people; hardly what I would consider a "collegial spirit of mutual respect". Jonathan -- Geek House Productions, Ltd. Providing Unix & Internet Contracting and Consulting, QA Testing, Technical Documentation, Systems Design & Implementation, General Programming, E-commerce, Web & Mail Services since 1998 Phone: 604-435-1205 Email: djw(a)reactor-core.org Webpage: http://reactor-core.org Address: 2459 E 41st Ave, Vancouver, BC V5R2W2

Neither are death threats, but you seem to approve of those. Zoe Jonathan Walther <krooger(a)debian.org> wrote:On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:37:11PM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote: Blasphemy is as offensive as lewdness. He is still trying to deliberately provoke and offend people; hardly what I would consider a "collegial spirit of mutual respect". Jonathan -- Geek House Productions, Ltd. Providing Unix & Internet Contracting and Consulting, QA Testing, Technical Documentation, Systems Design & Implementation, General Programming, E-commerce, Web & Mail Services since 1998 Phone: 604-435-1205 Email: djw(a)reactor-core.org Webpage: http://reactor-core.org Address: 2459 E 41st Ave, Vancouver, BC V5R2W2 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now

Jimmy Wales wrote: Actually, the place is "Bergen-Belsen", AFAIK, so we could allow "Belsen". Magnus

The policy as it stands now says that even real names can be banned if other people find them offensive. Tom Parmenter Ortolan88 |From: The Cunctator <cunctator(a)kband.com> |Sender: wikien-l-admin(a)wikipedia.org |Reply-To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org |Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:28:41 -0500 | |On 1/28/03 8:24 AM, "Magnus Manske" <magnus.manske(a)epost.de> wrote: | |> Jimmy Wales wrote: |> |>> Well, "Belsen" is a real name, in addition to being a concentration |>> camp. So *if* someone has that name, for real, and if it was not |>> intended to be political. |>> |>> |> Actually, the place is "Bergen-Belsen", AFAIK, so we could allow "Belsen". |> |This is getting a bit ridiculous. | |_______________________________________________ |WikiEN-l mailing list |WikiEN-l(a)wikipedia.org |http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |