Correction: these should have been posted in Political Disorder.  The rules
for Politically Incorrect are unchanged.  My apology for the misposts.

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Original: DATE..... 7/3/2010 9:46 PM
Original: FROM..... EARL CROASMUN  
Original: TO....... All  
Original: SUBJECT.. The Rules
Original: FORUM.... Fido-Politically Incorrect Discussions
Forwarded By....... EARL CROASMUN on 7/4/2010 9:01 AM

I posted the rules back on March 7, and they are unchanged from that
posting.  But since a sad malcontent is misrepresenting them in another
echo, here they are again:

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This echo is intended as a place where people can discuss politics.  It
is MY place, but I am inviting you to participate.  If you participate
by posting messages here, you are agreeing to follow certain rules.  If
at any time in the future I do not want you in my echo, I will ask you
to leave.

1. Do nothing even close to illegal.  No threats of physical violence.
No threats of legal action.  No libeling of anyone, whether participant
or non-participant in Fidonet.  And when I say "nothing even close," I
mean just that.  Don't try to play any "right up to the brink and then
stop" games.

2. Leave people's outside lives outside.  If you feel the need to insult
someone, insult them. But don't attack their parents, spouses, children,
employers, employees, and so on.  If someone posts an echo message
volunteering the information that they once did prison time, for
example, they have opened the door to discussion of that information.
But if YOU log into, for example, the Ohio Department of Corrections web
site and discover that they did prison time, keep that information out
of the echo.

3. Use your own name.  If you are going to say something in a public
forum, attach your name to it and accept responsibility for it.  If you
post a message in this echo you are attesting that the name attached to
it is your real name, and by your action you are granting permission to
the moderator and your sysop, node, host, or any other intermediaries to
verify that identity.

Questions can be emailed to:

earlcroasmun-at-netscape.net

The Moderator

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If you aren't reading Bobzo's rants elsewhere, you are missing a lot of laughs.

Take this line, for example, addressed to Sauer:

 EC> Now you are just being absurd in your desire to out-klahn klahn.

Bobzo calls this a "personal attack!"  Can you imagine anyone thinking it
is a "personal attack" to say that a person is like THEM?  He INSULTS
HIMSELF by claiming that someone is being insulted by being compared to him!

Long-timers, of course, will remember his famous line: "if you insult me,
so will I."  But now he is PRE-EMPTIVELY insulting himself.

He also makes at least four factual errors in his post.  He violates at
least two of his rules with the post.  And he misrepresents what I have
said by his dishonest paraphrasing accompanied by NO direct quotes of my
actual words.  Nothing new there.  But, really, take a moment to marvel at
the spectacle of Klahn saying that it is an insult to tell someone they are
like Klahn!  Hilarious.

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