<div dir="ltr">It is the practice of this group to not allow discussion which includes personal comments/attacks. Whether or not you are fine with that on a personal level is your own business, but that is the policy that Jim and I established for the LUG.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:51 PM, eviljoel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eviljoel@linux.com" target="_blank">eviljoel@linux.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Tolerable conduct and behaviors or our community is a discussion worth<br>
having. This isn't a topic we should sweep under the rug.<br>
<br>
Richard Johnson's comment was at least tangentially related to the free<br>
software community and was on topic. I'm angered that people try to tell<br>
him how he can and cannot express himself when what he says won't hurt<br>
other people. People should not have the right to silence him that way.<br>
The line should be whether what you say hurts other people, not just<br>
whether you like it or not.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
- eviljoel<br>
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On 03/18/2015 02:21 PM, Drew Fustini wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:28 PM, eviljoel <<a href="mailto:eviljoel@linux.com">eviljoel@linux.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> We can all certainly at least tolerate a genitalia joke on an Internet<br>
>> mailing list.<br>
><br>
> Ideally, content on this list should relate to GNU/Linux.<br>
><br>
> I suppose it my fault for replying to brian's original announcement<br>
> with my post-talk notes. Let us please let this thread go back to<br>
> sleep.<br>
><br>
> -drew<br>
><br>
<br>
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