Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/01/05/16:21:32
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
news:2593-Fri05Jan2001121313+0200-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il...
> > From: "Alexei A. Frounze" <dummy_addressee AT hotmail DOT com>
> > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> > Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 17:41:06 -0500
> >
> > Why the h*** "h***" is filtered out but g0d is n0t? Isn't this a
> > discrimination after all? why g0d is better and less offensive than
h***? is
> > there a proof? Btw, if we have a word which assumes existance of the
> > opposite meaning, we can suppress use of either of these words.
>
> That's a wrong attitude. Please accept that it is offensive as an
> axiom, and refrain from using it. DJ's spam filter is very good, it
> is constantly improved and maintained, and chances that it will be
> changed given questions of the ``why not?'' type are less than slim.
>
> There's enough ways to express anything you want without using this,
> or other similar words.
>
> Morover, when you choose words carefully, you might also find a better
> way of saying what you need to tell.
Accepted (since there is no way to change anything).
> > You know, when a parent doesn't buy to his/her child an expensive toy it
can
> > be treatead (from child's point of view) as an insult and can be carried
out
> > without much saying about it. :)
>
> How many children do you have? That's not how _my_ kids react when I
> don't buy them something they want.
Yours are probably grown enough to understand the issue... Otherwise it
hurts w/o any words :)
Take care,
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