Dear Mr. Schram,
At 10:51 PM 7/17/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Personally I do not consider DrumBSF's "God Bless" tagline to undermine
>the purpose of the forum. And I'm certain no offense was intended.
>However, the statement has nothing to do with Palm software and/or
>hardware development, and like any comment based in religion, it offends
>many. Thus we arrive at what is perhaps the most important area of 'forum
>law' if you could call it that: The uniform enforcement of the rules
>themselves.
>
>When we issue a warning for inappropriate behavior to one forum member, we
>are required to issue the same warning to all others demonstrating similar
>behavior. Not doing so opens the company to discriminatory legal action.
>While we are very tolerant of off-topic posts and the occasional debasing
>comments, we cannot allow repeat offenders to go unpunished, especially
>after they have been told to cease and desist.
So...I'm offended when I read messages that use the Acronym 'RTFM'. We all
know what it stands for, but apparently swearing in code is allowable on
the palm forum. Perhaps Mr. DrumBSF's tagline should be shortened to 'GB'
and then we can all tolerate it. How ridiculous! Let the man use his tagline.
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