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[caen!bsbbs!cynthia@harvard.harvard.edu (Cynthia Rosas)]

henrik@atria.com (Larry DeLuca) writes:
> 
> The arguments of censorship and free speech to defend what essentially
> amounts to inexcusably rude behavior has been aired over and over in
> this forum and others.  People seem to be more rude to each other
> electronically.  There are a number of reasons I can think of to
> explain why this is, but NONE of them justify it.  Rudeness is
> rudeness, pure and simple.  I'm certainly rude on occasion myself, as
> everyone is.  However, I try not to wear it like a badge, and also to
> be sure that anything I might say in print to someone I would be
> willing to say in person - too often I meet up with a netter in a
> different context to do otherwise.
 
That's "inexcusably rude behavior" according to... you.  What
you may consider rude someone else may consider blunt, and
vice versa.  I don't tyhink anybody here, in reality, wears
"rudeness" as a "badge".  Some are more feisty than others,
and some people are reactionary.  

I have yet to say anything in print in this forum that I would
not say to the person's face if the conversation were
inperson.  That is a good barometer, and I use it myself.

> I think love-hounds is on the same sort of downward spiral - the very fact
> that I am sending this note validates my claim to some extent, as there is
> always some idiot out there who thinks that they have been around the net
> long enough to observe these sorts of trends.  This time, it's me.
 
Yeah, right, the fall of the Roman Empire.  


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