Sounder mailing list etiquette and future direction

[Nils Kassube]

Liam Proven wrote:
> Part of the nature of humour, free-ranging discussion and learning is
> sarcasm, irony & a modicum of gentle mockery. Prevent me from using
> these techniques, you are restricting my freedom of expression. When
>  I am restricted from expressing myself, in effect, I consider myself
>  to be censored, and I am not tolerating that.

> OTOH, the chap here that kept issuing some kind of muslim dedication
>  - that is violently offensive to me, as a hardcore atheist. I am not
>  posting any message dedicated to anyone's  god, nor am I even
>  replying to one. I myself would move for a total ban on all mention
>  of any religion, including those to me rather hateful sigs
>  proclaiming that people espouse any particular variety of primitive
>  superstition.

Isn't a "total ban on all mention of any religion" the same kind of 
censorship that you don't tolerate?


Nils