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Re: People being removed from the list and such
From: Randy Bush <randy () psg com>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:31:27 -0700
pfui! unless someone has gone so far off the deep end as to be seriously impeding any other discussion on the list (google for "plonk":-), people should not be censored, period. we all can filter mail as we wish, just as we can bgp announcements. i submit that this discussion itself should be so unnecessary that we should be able to severly minimize our indulgence in it. randy -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" is widely attributed to Voltaire, but cannot be found in his writings. With good reason. The phrase was invented by a later author as an epitome of his attitude. It appeared in The Friends of Voltaire (1906), written by Evelyn Beatrice Hall under the pseudonym S[tephen] G. Tallentyre. Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, 1967
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