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

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 11:05:03 06/13/03

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On June 13, 2003 at 13:44:46, margolies,marc wrote:

>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


No, I would not,  It's a bad idea.  I should not have even suggested it -
although my suggestion was not serious.


>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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