From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bill Findlay Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A way to do a huge Ada promotion Date: 27 May 2014 15:38:48 GMT Message-ID: <1569237221422897228.115260yaldnif.w-blueyonder.co.uk@news.individual.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net PKrLE0nJmK9HNjK2c8DtSwt/CRoeiK6L3CO0fA3ZVOAtMvmURr Cancel-Lock: sha1:WaDQYcScbD7KyQYWkaAjf24g3ow= User-Agent: NewsTap/4.0.1 (iPad) Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:20066 Date: 2014-05-27T15:38:48+00:00 List-Id: Peter Chapin wrote: > On 2014-05-27 09:16, Bill Findlay wrote: > >> On http://portonvictor.org you offer these links: >> >>> My math blog >>> My software/programming blog >>> My religious blog >> >> The third directly leads to a page containing this: >> >> "Homosexuality is certainly a sin or a pathology." >> >> Attitudes like this are a mortal danger to millions around the world, >> subject to the risks of oppression, lynching and even judicial murder. >> >> By fostering such attitudes you help to increase that risk. >> >> I will not accept your using comp.lang.ada for that purpose. > > I actually don't think the original poster was using comp.lang.ada to > promote his views about homosexuality. The original post was on topic > for this group and it only included a link, in the signature of the > message, to the poster's home page. It is normal for personal home pages > to include a wide range of information about the page's author. In this > case the material on Porton's religious and political views was > separated from the material on software (as far as I could see). > > While I disagree with Porton's attitude about homosexuality I don't > think it's reasonable to say that he's using comp.lang.ada to push that > attitude. > > It would be different if the URL in question was an Ada vendor URL or > was highlighted in the post, or if the material on homosexuality was > included on his Ada pages or mentioned in the original posting. None of > that was true, however. He just happens to be a homophobic guy who uses > Ada. I'm sure he's not the only one. He is the only one who uses c.l.a for his bigotry. -- Bill Findlay