Hi.

I was offended by one of the posts last night.  It was suggesting that one 
might unsubscribe from the list and was then followed by a copy of a very 
offensive message sent by an unscrupulous individual who was recently 
booted off the list.  I do not have a problem with the person expressing 
outrage at such depraved and immoral language, but I DO have a problem with 
compounding the infraction by having a copy of the offensive message at the 
bottom of your message.  Find some way to reference the message without 
making all of us read that filth again.

And, when someone starts using such language, I think everyone would do 
well to use the filtering capabilities of Outlook, Outlook Express, or 
Eudora to block the messages from such an individual.  It is a lot harder 
with web based mail, and I don't have a good solution for such a person, 
but once we establish that a person is dealing in bad faith, the only thing 
that can make a bad situation worse is to continue to engage him or 
her.  It's hard to resist telling some one that they are a pig, and it 
might make you feel better, but it generally doesn't cause the person to go 
away or change their behavior.  It causes the situation to escalate to what 
we had with this offensive message.  I think this might have been a 
learning experience for all of us, myself included.

Let's not respond once we reach the point where we start to see something 
like this spinning out of control, and for the sake of decency, when 
someone posts a message using what all of us would probably is gutter 
language, let's not compound the offense by repeating it.
.

Thank you.

73, de Lou K2LKK



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