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Subject: Re: MODERATORS! delete above POSTING re:Charter

Author: margolies,marc

Date: 10:44:46 06/13/03

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dear mike,
 i hope you do not do something so unkind as to send dummy piracy offers. it is
one thing to police ourselves-- it's far more horrible to live in a police
state. And some official authority is sure to belive the dummy is real-- 'that
we are not doing "college research" here.
-marc
On June 12, 2003 at 18:46:18, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On June 12, 2003 at 12:56:00, margolies,marc wrote:
>
>>Michael,
>>Of course I respect your opinion. And in general, a laissez-faire attitude from
>>a censor is a very good thing.
>>This poster is searching for like minded thieves to make connections. He
>>shouldn't do it here. And the acceptablity of his post in this case is not a
>>function of how persons here publicly respond to him. It becomes a function of
>>whether he can get what he wants under the table from posting here and what will
>>certainly follow can affect the legitimite dialogs here and who might chose to
>>post here.
>>Won't you please reconsider this kind of censorship and take prophalaxis?
>>-marc
>>
>>
>
>Marc,
>
>You're either a deeper thinker or more skeptic than I am.  I never thought what
>you thought -- and you may be right.  In general, I would hope someone with a
>fairly "innocent" looking post would not get a lot of replies from possible
>cheats and thieves.  Perhaps we can test this theory some day with a dummy post
>and see what the response is.  I have a high opinion of the memebers here as
>being quite honorable.  I have an opposite view of some of the r.g.c.c posters.
>
>Best,
>
>Mike



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