[Tfug] Slightly OT but also funny as ?

[Robert Hunter]

This just keeps getting better, doesn't it?

Just for the *hell* of it. let's try to dissect this nonsense.

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Matthew Patenaude <mnglfiddle at gmail.com> wrote:
> Chris, I understand your point. The deal is that Gmail tends to be much
> easier used as webmail than anything else, therefore the emails don't get
> filtered out.

You can create Gmail filters with the web-based interface. They will
then work, regardless of which client you use to check your mail. You
can filter on any number of criteria, including headers, content,
attachments, and the list goes on. RTFM to learn how to use filters.
And you still haven't explained why you are not using separate
accounts.

> I would rather not be forced to switch to opening a mail
> client all the time just because grown-ups who should know better have so
> little character that they get upset because someone simply asks that they
> be more mature in their choice of words *in their subject lines*.

Let the ad hominem attacks begin. So, everyone should "know better",
and anyone who doesn't share your beliefs lacks "maturity". Is that
it? Why don't you cite one reference which supports your claim that
word 'hell' is inappropriate in a forum such as this?

Please don't misunderstand my point: I'm not saying that I would
personally use the word 'hell' without regard for the presence of
young children. What I am saying is that in this forum, most of us do
not expect that we will be addressing an audience of children.

Conversely, I am not criticizing you for letting your kids read your
TFUG email.  What you do with your kids in your house is your own damn
business. But please don't use that as an excuse to try and censor the
rest of us from using language which is, for most people at least, not
considered offensive.

> like I asked them to modify their language even in their emails themselves,
> but you would think I had asked them to repent and turn to Christ (from they
> way they have responded), which I should have instead of wasting my time
> asking them to just be a little considerate. A decent American used to would
> have acknowledged such a simple request as mine... I guess the times, they
> are a changin'!

Oh, you had to use the J-bomb, didn't ya? Decent Americans, eh?
Excuse me, I think I have to LOL for a bit.

> This is my final word on the subject and last request. I will simply try to
> delete emails as quickly as the show up if their subject lines are not
> clean. I wonder, however, how long the others will keep this up...

...Apparently, as long as we have nothing better to do than defend our
first amendment rights.

-- 
RH