Re: OT-CHAT: Screening out the World
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] OT-CHAT: Screening out the World
- From: N* P*
- Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 10:13:28 -0600
From: Nancy Pocklington <npocklington@accunet.net>
>From Nancy Pocklington: <npocklington@accunet.net>
I, too, got both the original "nip" and the responses. I share the
outrage of the others who have commented. Yes, Anner, it is too scary
to be funny!
Please explain where these filters come from, or who uses them. This
is all new to me; the recent reference to "breast" cancer was the first
I'd heard of the problem.
HIPSource@aol.com wrote>
> Margaret, your first post with the so-called 'obscenity' arrived fine here,
> so apparently it is a filter somewhere other than One-list.>
> And there is nothing even remotely obscene about your terminology. The word
> in question, 'nip' is a bona-fide word right there in the current
> dictionary--I just looked at the Random House College which is here at my
> elbow before I said that--and aside from anything else it has to be
> CAPITALIZED to refer in an offensive manner to the denizens of ancient Japan.>
>
> The whole situation is inane, Margaret, or would be if it were not so scary,
> all that piety combined with ignorance. Quite makes me want to say dirty
> words until their circuits melt
>
> Anner Whitehead
> HIPSource@aol.com
>
LOVE those last two sentences, Anner! WELL SAID!!!
Nancy
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