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In article <rauser.712887345@sfu.ca> rauser@fraser.sfu.ca (Richard John Rauser) writes:
>neeri@iis.ethz.ch (Matthias Neeracher) writes:
>>In article <rauser.712715402@sfu.ca> rauser@fraser.sfu.ca (Richard John Rauser) writes:
>>>    I was banned from posting stories to alt.good.news because of the gut
>>>reaction of an overly sensitive right-winger.
>
>>Why do you think your opponent is a right-winger? A right-winger would have
>>enjoyed your story about a God-fearing American boldly facing
>>Hispano-Franco-Atheo-Communist scum, wouldn't he?
>
>    Communist?

I was speaking ironically. I am aware that the bad guys in SLFS have no
ideological motives besides speaking garbled French and torturing god-fearing
Americans. Existential Internationalists, maybe.

>>And finally, your insisting on posting stories like "Danielle" on alt.good.news
>>simply makes no sense. If you were prevented from posting dog stories to
>>rec.pets.cats, would that be censorship?
>
>   Sure would, if the dog stories were relevant to rec.pets.cats. If you lack
>the depth of insight required to see that my stories _were_ relevant to     
>alt.good.news (albeit in a twisted fashion :-)

I take that as a sign that you are aware that "Danielle"'s only connection to
good news is the *absence* of good news, and I don't find that a very
compelling reason to post it there (might as well post it to comp.lang.c++).

>then you shouldn't be reading
>alt.prose. 

Gee, and you were whining about net.cops!

Matthias

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Matthias Neeracher                                   neeri@iis.ethz.ch
        "I came to the conclusion that sex is a sublimation
         of the work instinct" -- David Lodge, _Small World_