[ fbsd_chat ] Re: What is this forum for?

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

spellberg_robert <emailrob at emailrob.com> writes:
> notwithstanding your use of a "smiley_face",
>   as far as i am concerned,
>   on any mailing_list or other communications forum accessible by children,
>   such language is "verboten".

This has nothing to do with children.  It is simply a matter of
politeness.

> one of the several unimpeachable benefits of
>   the american "motion picture production code administration",
>   a/k/a "the hays office" [ after william hays ] or
>   "the breen office" [ after joseph breen ],
>   was that all films were viewable by children.

Only by US standards.  What do you think hurts a child more: to see a
woman's breast or hear the word "fuck", or to see cowboys and indians
(or their modern equivalent) disembowel each other?

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no