cscbrkac@charon.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble) (06/21/88)
> [Prior discussion: what to do about "obscene" posts and language in them.] > > I don't think that there is a technical solution. Maybe we as admins... > just mail a pink slip to the offender's home machine admin, and if that > administrator gets in their opinion enough of them, she/he has a talk with > the offender. This would handle the no dirty words in the message, but > the context was obscene problem. I know its a lot of trouble, but I think > we need to set a level of community standards here. > > -- > Barry S. Berg I think we already have a level of community standards. Community standards aren't "set", they just *are*. If someone posts something that offends enough people (viz: jj) he'll certainly get flamed for it, but I think the reality of the situation is that there just aren't all that many people on the net who take the time to be bothered by "dirty words". So there's your community standard right there. If you're still bothered by posts with the nasty words in them, set up a global kill file for them or something. Seems like it would be a waste of time to me, but then I'm not bothered in the least by the use of "dirty" words...this is more of an individual problem than a net problem, in my opinion, and should be solved on an individual basis (both on the sending and recieving end). -- Lazlo Nibble (cscbrkac@charon.unm.edu) "Great huge wobbly dangly ones."