Re: [OT] Goodbye to John was Re: Mr. Szabo's utter inability to think clearly or hold any moral standards

On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:27:11 -0500, Jim Callahan <res03m1u@gte.net>
wrote:

>2) Don't "boot" anybody because of their opinion, however idiotic or 
>distasteful. Free speech is ugly, but fascism is worse.

My only concern about this is the problem of "censorship through
yelling". In
other words, the one who yells the loudest is the most heard. Those who
don't
feel like yelling leave. 

At what point is one person's "ugly" free speech worth more than the
speech of
those who were silenced because they left in disgust. At what point does
the
list die from one person's rants because a critical mass of people left?

Hopefully this will end up being a tempest in a teacup and things will
float
back to normal. I just wonder how many potentially interesting people
are
being steered away from this list due to all the noise, or the loudness
of
that noise...

Allan Goodall		       agoodall@hyperbear.com
http://www.hyperbear.com

"At long last, the earthy soil of the typical, 
unimaginable mortician was revealed!"