From: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 03:59:09 +0800
To: Cerridwyn Llewyellyn <ceridwyn@wolfenet.com>
Subject: Re: Filtering out Queers is OK
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> >Filtering is not "wrong," Cerridwyn, it is a rational response to garbage
> >being spewed constantly. I filter lots of items. I read "Scientific
> >American" and "The Economist" because they filter (or "censor," in the
> >sense some are objecting to here) nonsense about "queer rights" and
> >"peircing fashions," to name but a few things I have no interest in hearing
> >about.
> 

...  hmmm ...

You seem to be fighting a losing battle; the Wall Street Journal carried 
an article about piercing AND an article about using Kool Aid as hair dye 
this week. Who knows - the Economist may not be far behind (although the 
mag has gotten so thin, there wouldn't seem to be much room).

- r.w.