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From: Cecil Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet]The B word and Short Leashes Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:09:07 +0530
Jorge de Abreu Noronha wrote: A couple of years ago, in one of my posts on goanet, I quoted a message that I had received from someone; and, as the quoted message contained the word
"ba***rd", I was rebuked by one of the coordinators for using foul language. I pressed my case and, if I remember well, Marlon stood by me, gave me reason and allowed my post to pass. Now I see Alfred using the same word in his message (see below) and his post was passed by the coordinators. Has there been a liberalisation of the decency standards followed by goanet?
Jorge
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Dear Jorge,
I too used the dreaded B word in a joke/quote some three years back and it caused great umbrage to the GoaNet Admin Team and they refused to let the posting through.
I think it all depends on whether you critical of the Admin Team or not. If you have ever been critical of any of their policies you will be "put on a short leash" (Herman's exact words to me) like a Iraqi prisoner of war.
Different rules for different folks!
Cheers!
Cecil
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Mistaken, me lad...entirely out of joint!
It is neither a symptom of nepotism nor any undue soft-heartedness on part of any of the goanet triumviri towards me that I escaped with (as Hemingway would have put it to get past censors) the-word-you-are/were-not-allowed-to-use.
If you have not envisaged it I will rather not clarify to you how it got done: That would be the simpliceity of making the egg stand horizontal after demonstration.
But, slitherian deviousness notwithstanding you should not go around rending your clothes, crying foul at every frustration, petty or significant. Life's viscicitudes may not be overcome with self-imolating recriminations.
Just to disabuse you of yours, and dear Jorges' perceived contumely: Do you have any idea how many of my posts are routinely discarded to the bin?
Just recently I compared embarassing eulogium to Parikar to "oral colon irrigation"; it would not out.
Why break the heart? Early in my hacking days I learnt a maxim for P-G-Wodehouse: If an editor accepts your copy, send him another one; if he rejects send it to another. That has held me in good stead, for the refusal slips would have filled more baskets then were replleted after the Sermon of the Mount.
have a heart, young man! Never lose it in a jiffy... AT, chacha
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