To the people who are offended by a "God Bless" tag line I say: GET OVER IT!
And if you don't like the fact that my message does not refer to the Palm in
any way, TOO BAD.
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Jason Henderson
Software Engineer
EagleSoft, A Patterson Co.
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same
level of thinking that created them." - Albert Einstein
-----Original Message-----
From: Gareth James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 9:35 AM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Re: Turn palm off code!
Well done Lisa, I would like to voice my support of this posting. I find the
use of RTFM offensive too. It seems it is ok to be abusive with people (with
or without swear words) but not ok to leave a pleasant greeting which to
Christians means a lot, to some people is nice and to others means nothing.
You know in this world today if anyone says something about people of the
opposite colour it's racist, a different religion it's intolerant, the other
sex it's sexist but Christianity it's 'freedom of speech'.
anyway I am with Mr Schram and the others about leave this forum for just
discussing the Palm so I am going to end my posting here!
thanks
"Lisa Gifford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:56988@palm-dev-forum...
>
>
> 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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