On 21 Aug 2008, at 18:13, Max Battcher wrote: > William T Goodall wrote: >> There are no 'technical or procedural' reasons for objecting to my >> posts on the matter of religion: it's an attempt by some to silence >> the expression of views they don't like plain and simple. > > Are you kidding? This is entirely about technical/procedural > objections! It's rude and against many internet taboos to re-post a > referenced article in it's entirety to a mailing list, because it > wastes > everyone's time and bandwidth. If someone is interested in an article > they can follow the link you send.
Actually on this list, because historically many members objected to content from sites that required registration/cookies and other kinds of tracking, quoting the relevant parts of the linked article was considered polite rather than taboo and I am merely adhering to this community's standards on that. [snip] > > > Ouch, that may sound more hostile than intended, so let me bottom line > it: I'm probably as anti-religious as you and I would say the same > thing > for any other poster that posted similarly useless, rude posts that > don't fit the mailing list medium and would be better in some other > environment such as the aforementioned "social bookmarking" sites. > Several other posters have posted links, many with substantial quotes, on the list recently so they certainly seem to fit on this mailing list despite what you think. Convention Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. - Richard Dawkins _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
