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[Chris Hedemark <chris AT yonderway.com>]

(this thread is winding down now, I promise)

On Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 02:01 PM, Tanner Lovelace wrote:

> Well, if Chris won't say it, then I will, at least for myself.
> I'm also on the TriLUG Steering Committee and the question came
> up about this message from Chris himself:

Hi Tanner,

Actually that wasn't the incident that I had in mind.   We had a problem with someone from IBM pushing the boundaries of "free speech" back in July.  This was not a thread that I was materially involved with.  My response to the SC was:

> I am loathe to censor the list, but I would have been comfortable approaching [person] to try to cool him off.  If he continues being a problem I volunteer to represent the SC's interests in the matter.

I also said (in another thread to the SC):

> The only thing that personally bothers me on the mailing lists is vulgar
> profanity.  This is because we have people of all ages on the mailing
> list, and I'd hate for parents to keep their children off of the lists
> because of language.  But on the flip side I'd rather have vulgar
> language on the lists than censorship.

If my stance on mailing list censorship is going to be put under the microscope, I at least want my stance represented fairly.

Chris Hedemark
Hillsborough, NC
http://yonderway.com