Author: Don Dailey
Date: 11:43:08 07/09/98
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On July 09, 1998 at 14:05:50, Tim Mirabile wrote: >On July 08, 1998 at 19:33:03, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>On July 08, 1998 at 17:53:19, Don Prohaska wrote: >> >>>Not too long ago a certain person claimed that the addresses from ccc were given >>>to a commercial entity and that entity then spammed the members of ccc. That >>>person was wrong and was told he was wrong and he knew he was wrong. Later he >>>gave this "wrong" information several times at rgcc. Now, are you telling me >>>that a post like that can linger on? Why should falsehoods be allowed to live >>>on? When it is read it can be believed as true. After all, not everyone has the >>>time to check out all the messages on ccc. If you must leave falsehoods on ccc, >>>I suggest that a note be apended stating that the comments have proven false! >>>This BS that everything be permitted is crazy. PERIOD! >> >>Yes, there are a lot of ugly things that can happen. Perhaps this is how the >>post I refer to was viewed. > >I think we are all being careful about what to delete, and for good reason. > >It would be a really bad idea to start deleting unpopular opinions just because >the majority thinks those opinions are wrong. If someone makes a factual error, >he can simply be corrected in a followup post. If someone has an unpopular >opinion, someone will surely followup with a counter argument. But if we start >to delete unpopular views because we fear that others might beleive them, we are >in big trouble. We are only interested in deleting direct personal attacks. Factual errors are ok. And opinions are welcome, even if not popular. - Don
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