>While I was very surprised at the tone of his messages today, personally, I don't see that message as extreme enough to warrant banning. If it is, there are many messages here on the UT that use much stronger language and I'm afraid quite a few would be banned (not to mention the messages with profanity in them)...
I don't even see them as warrenting being taken seriously <s>
To be offensive, something must first avoid silly.
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>>Sir
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>>With regard to Message #
1294674 and the posted Universal Thread Rules of Etiquette (
http://www.levelextreme.com/Help.asp#4), specifically:
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>>"The following are not allowed and are not tolerated:
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>>personal attacks
>>political attacks
>>religious attacks
>>other group attacks
>>malicious use of expletives or obscenities
>>any use of expletives or obscenities in the title of a thread
>>any use of profanity
>>This applies to all members."
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>>I was subjected to a "personal attack" for defending a "political" or "other" group of members against what may be considered a "political attack".
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>>I respectfully await your decision.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
