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"David Berg" <dberg -at- dmpnet -dot- com> wrote in message news:104993 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
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> > :: Do we have a rule about "no political discussion" on this
> > :: list? There's one
> > :: on the Copyeditor's list, which the long-suffering
> > :: list-admin brings up
> > :: every time someone makes comments like this one...
> >
> > No, but there's an "off-topic" rule, in which political discussions
fall.
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> > - Bill [grabbing the wheel and steering back onto the topic path]
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> Sorry folks, perhaps I veered a little too far off-topic in my attempt to
> use illustrative examples of the difference between two phrases.
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No need to apologize, David. Your example may have been annoying to some of
the politically "sensitive" folks, but it was a legitimate illustration of
your point and therefore not off-topic. Certainly not as off-topic as some
of the snide anti-capitalist asides I've seen from your critic. <g>
Richard
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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Voyant Technologies, Inc.
richard -dot- combs -at- voyanttech -dot- com
303-223-5111
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rgcombs -at- free-market -dot- net
303-777-0436
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