[130208] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What must one do to avoid Gmail's overachieving spam filtering?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Downs)
Wed Sep 29 18:06:20 2010
From: James Downs <egon@egon.cc>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <6364BE95-EBDB-4D4C-A1FC-12886CD04D8D@humancapitaldev.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:06:00 -0700
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 29, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Daniel Seagraves wrote:
> On Sep 29, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Ryan Hayes wrote:
>
>> Can you please not use the word "retarded" in a pejorative sense?
>
> The word "please" is probably not required, since using that word in
> this manner is prosecutable hate speech in some jurisdictions.
Really? Where? Seems to me equating "retarded" used as an adjective to
say, speech of the KKK seems... lame.
Also, "retarded" was applied to software, which to date, has not been
entered as a protected group.
-j
