X-Message-Number: 24369 From: 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 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=24369