Re: [tlug] top posting

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 10:55:29AM +0100, Godwin Stewart wrote:

>The lusers throw a hissy fit about how you're being a nazi and impeding frea

The first time anybody said that to me on any list I ran, they'd be gone,
with prejudice.  That is not only both false and extremely insulting to
the person at which it is always falsely leveled, but is a real affront
to the victims of real Nazis, both those who survived and those who
didn't.  I have a wide vocabulary of epithets, but "Nazi" is one
word that doesn't have a place there.

>speach with your censorship, but none of them have the required IQ to
>realize that you're not telling them *WHAT* to say, but *HOW* to say it.

I would be tempted to tell them that if I start a mailing list, it's my
property and as a matter of fact I do have the right to choose what is and
is not said there.  Freedom of speech may not be infringed by the government

(at least in some countries), but that doesn't mean I can't found a private
forum and set out the rules of what is and is not acceptable in that
forum.  If you don't like it, go start one of your own and see
if anyone joins it and what hard work it is.  Then, with that being said,
I might go on to explain to them that it's not what they said, it's how they
said it, and I have every right to dictate that and *my* mailing list
and will continue to do so, and that if they don't like it I'd be happy
to unsub them.

Then, I'd put in the final nail: "That bogus free speech argument is the
same one that spammers use when people try to stop them from utilizing
resources that belong to others in an unauthorized or unacceptable
manner.  So, explain to me again why this is a free speech issue and not
an issue of me doing with my property as I see it."  :-)

Jonathan
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