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pmetzger@snark.shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger) writes:

>A well functioning society has
>ways of dealing with people who look like adults but are only six
>years old inside. Presumably, you would like to have the list open to
>you again so you could continue to defecate in the center of other
>people's living rooms, but those people are not anxious to have you
>back after you've done it the first time.
>When
>a group of people decide not to talk to a malicious child, they are
>not committing censorship -- the child is still free to say whatever
>it likes. What they are doing is ceasing to listen, which is well
>within their rights.

	And, of course, we have (for those in the audience who didn't
know, just in case...) means out here in the wilds of Usenet to deal
with such children as well, on a more personal level.  Kill files.
Put a name, oh, say, just for the sake of example, "Bruce White" in
your kill file, and posts from that person don't show up.  You have
effectively "kicked that person off the list", as far as you're
concerned, for the most part.  Right, Mr. White?

	...

	Mr. White?  Hm...oh, well...

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