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Why isn swearing allowed on RELAY?

April 26, 2017allowed Relay swearing

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Why isn swearing allowed on RELAY?

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Because of the academic conferencing/usage purpose for RELAY’s existence, and because the network administrators for the host servers may monitor any channel at any time, the rules of CREN (one of the governing organizations of BITNET) must be followed at all times. Since swearing is seen as non-academic and degrading, CREN disallows its use over the network.