To: Alan Smithee who wrote (28113 ) 2/3/2005 1:07:41 PM From: Lazarus_Long Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 90947 And I have been assured by SI Admin that referring to X as ionesco is acceptable, whereas accidentally finding and posting any of the old posts where she used her real name or it was used by someone else, including friends of hers, is a rubbery TOU violation violation- -rubbery in the sense that it can be stretched or contracted to cover or not cover a particular instance as needed. When the same was done to me some years back and I asked Admin merely for a warning to the poster, I was told to go to ****. When I do it, it's a problem. So if you find any old posts of someone who changed from their real name to an alias, don't post them. Whereas the same post without those few words is perfectly acceptable. You could, of course, post the text yourself and remove the offensive words, but then you can also expect to be challenged to prove what you posted is accurate- -and there's your problem again. Let me quote Abraham Lincoln to express my sense of this: "Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read in "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners and catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty—to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy." Frankly, a site that is clearly and openly anarchy appears preferable to one which has "rules" whose interpretation and application are changed at unpredictably and at whim. Anyone know any good groups at Yahoo or Raging Bull? Anyone want to be moderator of this thread? I quit. Personally, I'd like to suggest Dave as moderator. However, should anyone else volunteer, I will, unless it is X or one of her clones, agree and assist.