From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!eisx!whuxlb!npl Newsgroups: net.flame Title: watch your language Article-I.D.: whuxlb.1020 Posted: Mon Mar 7 23:32:07 1983 Received: Wed Mar 9 03:22:20 1983 No this is not another spelling and grammar flame! Yet again, some vulgarity has appeared on the net. As usual, this occurs shortly after the beginning of an academic semester after some new "joker" learns about it. Then there is a few weeks time lag until that person decides to submit something. Then, that person's sophomoric mentality limits the contribution to some vulgarity or other. Some time ago, someone published some Rules of Etiquette for the net. Could that same someone please post them again? (And set up a crontab entry to do so around the beginning of each academic semester at the colleges/universities which are on the net so that we don't have to travel this particular Mobius strip again!) Prior to any "free speech" flames: No, I was not offended by the four letter Anglo-Saxon monosyllable, but there are administrators and such on the net who may be. If too many (their count, not mine) vulgar/obscene/ethnic/etc. material is found on the net, it could be shut down, or severely curtailed. Don't mouth off just to prove you know the words (we ALL know them). My rule of thumb is not to submit to the net any joke I wouldn't tell my mother in law. If I was to submit such a joke, I would encrypt it. ** FLAME OFF **