[Wikipedia-l] Re: Two issues here: what is legal to have on the server and what is legal in the user's nation

Fri May 16 22:32:31 UTC 2003

Toby Bartels wrote:

>Anthere wrote:
>
>>>A contributor from France can decide what risk she wants to take
>>>in posting potentially illegal material while in that country.
>>>But I shouldn't use my influence on Wikipedia policy to stop her.
>>>(I don't know if this paragraph is in disagreement with you or not.)
>>>
>>Why do you use a "she" ?
>>
>
>As you suspected,
>because you were the first French contributor to come to mind.
>But of course I don't mean to imply that I mean you specifically,
>just as writing "he" would not have implied that I meant Aoineko
>(the first male French contributor to come to my mind just now).
>
>I wrote "she", thought «That "she" is because of Anthere, isn't it?»,
>decided «Well, it's no worse than "he" and better than "ze".», and kept it.
>But really, I should have changed it to "they".
>
Then you would have been grammatically wrong. :-)

Ec