I'm sorry, I thought I was responding off-list, because John's email said "off list" in it, and I didn't look carefully when replying.
I stand behind every word and I don't mind that it's public, but the list didn't need to see all that, we were done with that and I do believe in letting things die, and it includes *actual* swear words because I intended it to be off list. I was only even replying this many days later because this went to an address that I hadn't checked in some days and so it was a "new" message on that account. Sorry again. -- bkw On Sun, Aug 2, 2020, 5:39 PM Brian White <bw.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > Of course I did it again, because I did nothing in the first place, or any > subsequent time. > > You are in the wrong. Adjust what you consider harmful into something more > in tune with reality, and yes apologize for getting it a little wrong. > > You can in fact do that. whatever weird internal list of words you have > been operating under, they didn't come from god, and they can be wrong and > they can be changed. Your attempt to say you're just enforcing a rule that > predates you is invalid and frankly silly. > > Yes, you do owe me and averyone else an apology for chastizing someone > when they didn't do anything wrong, and for which they could not have > possibly known not to do, because there is no published list of illegal > words. Instead you may simply respond at any unpredictable time over > anything. You cannot say "evryone knows whats bad" because it has been > demonstrated quite clearly that everyone does not know, or have the same > idea of what is obviously profane and what is not. > > You are simply in the wrong on this tiny detail, and you should apologize > for even saying anything in the first place, and adjust your list of > harmful language so that in the future you don't overstep like this again. > > I was about to upload a video of using the BCR port to power an arduino > tpdd. The video is kind of crap. I can't freaking even say "please excuse > the craptastic video, but here's this thing working..." > > Saying "crap" was itself already THE very way to avoid saying "shit". I > cannot believe that you don't know this. > > Shall we write cr*p instead? But then everyone knows what it means, so > what's the difference? It's just another spelling for the same word. > essentially, or sayingvit in another language. Shall we write "excrement" > or "feces" how are those any better? Or, maybe you don't like any of those > either? It's illegal to reference bodily waste in any form, so when say, > something has a "crappy interface" ... > > You're simply wrong. Adjust so as no no longer be wrong please, for the > sake of the shared facility you are administering. > > Shall I dig up some kind of movie rating reference to show that "crap" is > allowed in even G rated materials designed specifically for children? A > list member should never have to become so lawyerly. > > When you say, "everyone knows", in this case that applies to you. Everyone > does know. You should know what everyone else knows. > > The ridiculousness of this complaint over this word is the only reason > anyone is talking about a published explicit list of banned words, because > if you are going to complain about that, then you might complain about > anything, and that makes the list into an uneasy place to try to > communicate. > > Here's how you can tell that you are in the wrong and not that guy who > said "crap": > > Your action chased him right off the list. > His action did not chase anyone else off the list. > > That is a simple math to evaluate right there. Between you and that guy, > you were the one who harmed the list. I know you thought you were > protecting it, but go back and look at that very simple math again. > > -- > bkw > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2020, 6:16 PM John R. Hogerhuis <jho...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 2:12 PM Brian K. White <b.kenyo...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Whoah you just did it again. >> >> Responded off list. >> >> -- John. >> >
