Mike
If you think it is about free speech, you'll need to explain why people like Jess Banaga and others are still here since they espouse the same particular idea as JB's sole VFP contribution in recent times.
The "difference" I see, apart from bandwidth consumption, is that I don't think Jess would *ever* make sexual jokes here at someone's expense and he does not use aliases.
If you see something different, what is it?
If we want them back we probably don't want to annoy MF with a "free speech" protest. Maybe "Point Made, lets start again, no second chances?"
I'm still in Indiana. The address was changed back to get a mailing address for the Code magazine.
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1