[Discuss] free email less intrusive than google

Bouman MC boumanmcc at gmail.com
Tue Mar 29 08:48:56 EDT 2016


Peace is declared!! The topic is closed. (I had to defend myself...) MCB

2016-03-28 20:11 UTC−04:00, John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com>:
> This conversation about that phrase is off-topic for the BLU mailing list.
> It has nothing whatsoever to do with Linux and UNIX.
>
> I thought I had replied about this a couple weeks ago, but it turns out my
> earlier reply went to one individual and not to the list. Attempting to
> stir up the argument yet again when it had died out a week ago is even more
> inappropriate.
>
> As I said in my earlier reply, if you are unable to drop the matter, then
> take it to private mail or some other, more relevant forum, and keep it off
> the BLU mailing list.
>
> Thank you.
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 6:58 AM, Bouman MC <boumanmcc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My use of the term "cotton pickin' " was for the purpose of
>> aliteration, not racism. Why would anyone think of this phrase in
>> racist terms? I personally know of white woman from Latvia who
>> emigrated just after WWII with her family (as a child) to Tennessee.
>> The whole family picked cotton by hand in the fields. No language
>> skills, no job...unless you can pick cotton. Then they got a cross
>> burnt outside of their front door and they got the hint that nobody
>> thereabouts wanted Latvian immigrants and they moved to New Jersey. So
>> goes life. Back to the email question.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2016-03-22 6:56 UTC−04:00, Bouman MC <boumanmcc at gmail.com>:
>> > Back to the core question: Which of these email services will be the
>> > first to turn over all date to the feds? What do I have to hide?
>> > Nothing. What do I want? My constitutional perogatives that this
>> > country used to have. MCB
>> >
>> > 2016-03-22 6:40 UTC−04:00, Gordon Marx <gcmarx at gmail.com>:
>> >> Hi MC,
>> >> Why do you think I want to hear from you?
>> >>
>> >> Before you respond, think about why I would say that to you. Remember
>> >> that you started a thread where a bunch of people said a bunch of
>> >> foolish shit, and you started it by saying something you shouldn't
>> >> have. You didn't apologize, you still haven't apologized, and I'm sure
>> >> that even if you tried, your apology would sound flat and insincere,
>> >> because you don't even know what you did. As a result of that thread,
>> >> I left BLU, and then you decided it was a good idea for you to email
>> >> me privately. Think *really* hard before you hit send on a response,
>> >> and even then, you probably just shouldn't.
>> >>
>> >> Gordon
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 6:32 AM, Bouman MC <boumanmcc at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>> My use of the term "cotton pickin' " was for the purpose of
>> >>> aliteration, not racism. Why would anyone think of this phrase in
>> >>> racist terms? I personally know of white woman from Latvia who
>> >>> emigrated just after WWII with her family (as a child) to Tennessee.
>> >>> The whole family picked cotton by hand in the fields. No language
>> >>> skills, no job...unless you can pick cotton. Then they got a cross
>> >>> burnt outside of their front door and they got the hint that nobody
>> >>> thereabouts wanted Latvian immigrants and they moved to New Jersey.
>> >>> So
>> >>> goes life. Back to the email question.
>> >>>
>> >>> 2016-03-16 7:02 UTC−04:00, Gordon Marx <gcmarx at gmail.com>:
>> >>>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 10:12 PM, Rich Pieri
>> >>>> <richard.pieri at gmail.com
>> >
>> >>>> wrote:
>> >>>>> When C's "persuasion" takes the form of social or political
>> >>>>> pressure
>> >>>>> applied to A in order to coerce A to conform to C's ideals and
>> >>>>> morals
>> >>>>> then it most certainly is oppression.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Oh, I understand now. You don't know what oppression means. I was
>> >>>> right when I said you were insulated from the outside world!
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Peace out, BLU. Whoever was complaining about the SNR was right, but
>> >>>> not in the way he (and it was DEFINITELY a he) meant it. If anyone
>> >>>> wants me to continue telling them why their idiotic beliefs about
>> >>>> how
>> >>>> to act in society are idiotic, feel free to follow up privately, but
>> >>>> I'm off the list as of right now and won't be back.
>> >>>> _______________________________________________
>> >>>> Discuss mailing list
>> >>>> Discuss at blu.org
>> >>>> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>> >>>>
>> >>
>> >
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