From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!u1100a!sdo Newsgroups: net.news.group Title: Re: net.women Article-I.D.: u1100a.276 Posted: Wed Jan 12 10:05:40 1983 Received: Fri Jan 14 03:08:04 1983 References: watmath.4212 Newsgroups should be formed based on how many people WANT them - not how many people DON'T want them. A previous article states: "Splitting off and starting a separate news group to discuss women's issues isolates the discussion and preserves the impression that women's issues are not of general interest." Nobody ever said that forming a newsgroup means that the subject is not of general interest. Suppose everyone reads net.games.rogue. This is no reason to put it back in net.general. As far as I'm concerned, refusing to start a separate newsgroup for women implies that they don't have important enough issues to discuss. I've said enough. Scott Orshan (Male) Bell Labs Piscataway 201-981-3064 houxm!u1100a!sdo