->  TW> This is the FIDO "Technical" Echo, Right. 
->  TW> SO are you saying that the discussions are NOT Technical??
->  TW> IF so you have a very Tunnle Visioned view of Technical.

->  I'm referring, of course, to the political discussions that
-> have been threatening to take over this echo in the past couple of
-> weeks.  Evidently you have a sophisticated application that is
-> automatically screening them out.  What's the app, and how does it
-> work--does it check off even vaguely political terms against a list?

 Threatning to Take over????? 
Those messages you are talking about are fare less them 5% of the
Messages I get in this Echo. Adn even then it seesm to be a temporary
bump in the Road. I hardly see it as a contuning thing.
 ARE YOU sure you are in the Right Echo??
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