The whole thread about "lump it or leave it", and Howard's complaints
about Dave's use of sarcasm, got me thinking.  Aspnes correctly
described some of Dave's responses as gleeful, which isn't very
polite.  And political discussions would be really boring without the
sort of gentle exaggeration/sarcasm that Dave used (no way to avoid
offending Jeanie, except maybe a pure text poster that said
"Censorship isn't very nice.")

  Howard considered them rude, and maybe they were.  But nothing
along the lines of opinion's heyday.  As I heard the tale,
cmu.cs.discussion was formed by someone who was accused of pedophilia
during a flamewar on opinion!  So what we need is a new newsgroup:
cmu.cs.polite.discussion.

  It would be moderated, or maybe impolite people like Dave and me
could just be banned from ever posting to it.  Sarcasm, exaggeration,
and any imputation of ANY characteristic to members of the department
could be banned.

  And if on elevators, why not on polite bboards?  People could just
cancel messages that offend them.

Dave's above point would have to be stated something like

	Could you express the Clitoral Hood's message in a
	non-offensive political message?

And most importantly, no one would *ever* have to hear something painful
and ugly like

	lump it or leave it
	I'll do it even if you're offended by it
	taking down political posters is immoral

on cmu.cs.polite.discussion.