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- Message-ID: <9301021731.AA19653@lludd.sics.se>
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 18:31:16 +0100
- Sender: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- From: torkel@SICS.SE
- Subject: Re: Happy New Year!
- Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat,
- 02 Jan 93 17:08:49 +0000. <9301021717.AA17024@sics.se>
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- Graham complains bitterly:
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- >where I have / god /:j in my global kill file, but this stuff comes
- >directly into my mailbox and I find unsolicited religious tripe grossly
- >offensive.
-
- This is unreasonable on several counts. First, how could any
- purveyor of tripe possibly wait for you to solicit the tripe before
- delivering it? That's not how things are done in this world. Second,
- why should it be more difficult to apply a manual kill procedure to
- religious tripe than to other kinds (which you don't complain about)?
- Third, you are simply being too sensitive! We can't all go around
- carefully sifting through our tripe for religious references before
- sending it out just to avoid offending you.
-