In the religion in which I was brought up, I was taught not to use the name of
the supreme being in vain. For someone who takes those precepts seriosly, even
to reply to this offender would be wrong.
I don't see what's wrong with suggesting that someone Read The Fine Manual.
I have followed mailing lists in which one poster, like Mr G_D keeps posting
offensive messages. I would suggest that the best practice is not to kick the
person off the list but not reply to such offensive messages.
Gareth James wrote:
> 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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