[Discuss] free email less intrusive than google

Joe Polcari joe at polcari.com
Tue Mar 15 15:15:37 EDT 2016


You can’t say “good day” because it can be interpreted by someone who is having a bad day as sarcastic remark.




On 3/15/16, 2:51 PM, "Discuss on behalf of Gordon Marx" <discuss-bounces+joe=polcari.com at blu.org on behalf of gcmarx at gmail.com> wrote:

>I SAID GOOD DAY.
>
>On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3/15/2016 12:39 PM, Gordon Marx wrote:
>>> That's not what suppression means, Rich, and if you don't know it,
>>> you're doing a pretty good job of insulating yourself from the outside
>>> world.
>>
>> Please enlighten me because I thought suppress meant to curtail, to stop
>> activities, to do away with, to subdue, to withhold from publication and
>> so forth.
>>
>> On 3/15/2016 12:50 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
>>> then Person C says to Person A, "you're being oppressive," it doesn't
>>> then make Person C the oppressor.)
>>
>> It makes C an oppressor, too. C is trying to apply social pressure to A
>> with the goal of curtailing A's speech. That's oppression. Whether or
>> not A is wrong for saying it is orthogonal to C being wrong for trying
>> to suppress it.
>>
>> --
>> Rich P.
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