Hi Don
Thank you for the xx’s as I wanted to include your original note, and I do want folks at Temasek to see this.
Censoring of this kind by perhaps over zealous spam filters is of course fairly common. A term used commonly in one culture may be quite offensive in another. A mildly swearing term in one culture can be highly offensive elsewhere. It made me wonder why would you assume that it is appropriate language on an international list like this? At least among people I mix with, bullsxxt would not be common in polite society in the UK either. Cultural sensitiivty costs nothing. I admit to being a reserved Brit. but I choose to be moderate in dealings on this list, for the reasons outlined above. I know some people here like a good set-to argument, but that’s not my style and I guess isn’t the style of many here either. It’s not funny to see blunt and abrasive comments - for some they will be abusive.
Given the upset of not many weeks ago, and the continuing campaign in the Twitterverse to bring this list entirely, it behoves us all to be a little more circumspect about what we write here. It’s not ‘too bad’ that folks in one institution cannot see some mailings, we have a duty to communicate, or at least to make a reasoned argument for relaxing the spam filter.
I once worked for Middlesxx University in London. Had no end of email blockages in some countries, and parents of overseas students who wondered if it was a proper place to send their children.Maybe it was/not, but that had nothing to do with the name*.
Temasek respondents are most welcome to discuss.
kind regards
David
* Middlesxx is a county area in North London, and the name of a famous cricket club - or so I’m told.
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David Durling HonFDRS PhD http://durling.tel
> On 19 Mar 2017, at 06:54, Don Norman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Ah, the Singaporeans. Didn't like that one, tiny four-letter word in my
> post. Hint: I said "bullsxxt." It my world, that is an everyday phrase,
> not even close to obscenity.
>
> So sorry, those of you at Temasek, you will never learn what it is that I
> said. (and if people do not trim the tails of their responses, you will not
> ever even see the responses.)
>
> Maybe that's a virtue.
>
> Don
>
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