Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS released

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 08:19 -0700, Johnneylee Rollins wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> >
> > Because the word contained "rape".
> >
> > Don't want to read something? Simply hit the NEXT button...
> You know, of all the things that's okay to joke about, you've hit one
> of the things that really really isn't?
> Kindly don't use rape as a tool to make some inane point, it's
> entirely inappropriate. Especially here.

I think it's a perfectly valid point, as people who run servers
configure these filters for their users to abide with. There are 5 forms
of abuse: physical, emotional, intellectual, sexual and spiritual.
Abuse, in any of these forms, can be elevated to the point of felony
rape ...but we, as a society, focus on the sexual version and not it's
cousins to our detriment, spreading fear and ignorance. 

My point is that filtering out "rape" would preclude a discussion of
emotional rape, or (what seems to get bandied around here) intellectual
rape. Abuse, extreme enough, is philosophically rape, if not legally.
So, better to be thoughtful of how you set your filters for a mail list.
Especially if "skyscrapers" gets tossed because the letters r and a and
p and e are in sequence within another harmless word.  


-- 
My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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