Why does everyone always have to get so combative. If changing the rule names a little to avoid offending the easily offended, it does no harm. It is the same rule after all. What it is called is of no real consequence.
You are right and you are not right. One shouldn't be combative about this. But: penis is not an offensive word at all, you find it in every dictionary and in the Encyclopedia Brittanica. If you go that root you also have to change the names of rules which contain "sex", "porn" etc. in the name. I personally would definitely NOT know what the BIGGER_BITS rule means (as a non-native speaker it's not in my active vocabulary, I would know what it means in a full sentence, but I would scratch my head if I saw "BIGGER_BITS" on its own) until I look up the description, now imagine with what creative names you need to come up to name all these other rules. In the end you completely loose any tie between the name and the rule and this is definitely not a good thing.
Furthermore, I don't understand why these people get upset at all. They can shut off the body reporting and won't see the rule names or simply get excluded from spam tagging which will give them a flood of "pen1s" and "p0rn" mails. Is this any better?
Agreed utterly. The question is where to draw the limit. Rick Beebe's org. could soon well be recruiting Muslim and Jewish users who object to "ham" and "non-ham" ("spam" is definable, could be "chicken", but "ham" is "pork".)
Once I (in theory, I moved house *long* ago) couldn't order "black" coffee in England any more, for fear of being battered by non-whites. Now I can again. Everybody draws his (ermm ... her) own conclusion as to what extent this farce can be extrapolated and may again be altered in the future.
Tony
-- Tony Earnshaw
No nudes is bad nudes
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