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Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 13:33:03 EDT
Subject: S'cide abbrev.

In a message dated 7/10/2004 3:01:01 AM Mountain Daylight Time,  
 writes:

Will  someone please explain to me what horrible events
will occur if we use the  "s" word in our messages?  The
abbrevns etc r drivng me krazy!  I  feel like I'm reading
spam ads for V1agra or something!

Live long  and prosper,
Kennita


There are good "lurkers" on this group who are professionally employed in  

biology, who do not post here as it might harm their professional  reputations.
But when I started this discussion they wrote me in anguish,  convinced that 
religious-right extremists like Ashkroft would seize on this  to ban both 

assist'd s'cide and cryonics.  Ask. has already tried to ban  the Oreg'n 
practice, 
and been strongly rebuked by the Court of Appeals, so that  is a legitimate 
concern.
 
  All these posts are archived and available via a Google  search.  By 

abbreviations and misspellings we make it unlikely that some  dogooder searching
on 
the words themselves will come across them.  This  does not provide total 
privacy but is a simple way to increase it.
 
Alan


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