From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!eisx!whuxlb!npl Newsgroups: net.flame Title: Re: Re: watch your language - (nf) Article-I.D.: whuxlb.1027 Posted: Fri Mar 11 21:44:09 1983 Received: Sat Mar 12 08:37:52 1983 #R:unc:-474900:whuxlb:3800002:000:1225 whuxlb!npl Mar 11 21:40:00 1983 Sorry Tim, You grow up! Vulgarity may have a place on the street corner, the local neighborhood Gin Mill, and even among some of the so-called sub-cultures, but, if you want to make anything of your life, you will learn to speak the "spoken" English without resorting to such crassness. Those "candyass" administrators you speak of are from a generation even older than mine, and, though you may disagree with their views, they do hold the power to shut us all off. Ergo, someone's abuse of their right of what they consider free speech, may hamper my right to both free speech and free collection of other's views. I happen to disagree with your view, but at least you had the chance to state it. I was referring not only to certain vulgarities I had seen but was also trying to forestall yet another deluge of jokes in extremely bad taste as I foresaw, with much distaste, what I perceive to be the semi-annual ritual of new readers on the net getting more and more brazen with submissions until, at last, someone submits something with an ethnic/racial slur. This invariably leads to much "hotter" flames than mine, some of which are by the aformentioned administrators, and to certain sites being lost to the net.