[MacDV] Re: SIGS Off-Topic, should read Need Telecast help

[Illovox Media]

on 4/18/03 3:31 PM, Steven Rogers at srogers1 at austin.rr.com wrote:

> Who made up that rule? Every netiquette guide I've ever seen advises
> avoiding controversial sigs, not that sigs are inviolate bastions of
> free expression.
> 
> If you want to express a political opinion, pick a forum that is
> *designed* for political discussion - where the members have signed up
> for that.

If you have an issue with a sig, just ignore the post or tackle it offlist.
Onlist is off-topic.  It's that simple.  Hey do you have a Telecast?

>> Nothing wrong with taking issue or with a group dealing with multiple
>> camps of opinions either.  The whole point of this democracy is
>> freedom of speech.
> 
> I don't think that's the *whole* point.

Fine.  A major point then.  DO you have access to a Telecast manual?

>> Get it?  If not, go live in one of these countries we liberate, before
>> liberation.  Then you'll welcome Charles' or anyone else's free > speech.
> 
> Free speech has nothing to do with this issue, since free speech
> specifically has to do with the *government's* ability to outlaw ideas.
> "Free speech" does not mean that one can say anything anywhere anytime.

No, but it does mean Nazis can march in Skokie, as distasteful as that might
be.  He was not advocating Nazism, and his sig is not a topic.  If you have
issue with it, take it offlist.  I could also use Telecast set up diagrams.