Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site timeb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!edsel!bentley!hoxna!houxm!vax135!timeinc!timeb!dwight From: dwight@timeb.UUCP (Dwight Ernest) Newsgroups: net.women,net.women.only Subject: Re: proposed removal of net.women.only Message-ID: <38@timeb.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 13:58:17 EST Article-I.D.: timeb.38 Posted: Fri Nov 30 13:58:17 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Dec-84 20:25:21 EST References: <209@calmasd.UUCP> <471@uwmacc.UUCP> Organization: Time, Inc. - New York Lines: 34 > In article <209@calmasd.UUCP> gail@calmasd.UUCP (Gail B. Hanrahan) writes: > >If David DiGiacomo doesn't want net.women.only on his own > >machine, he doesn't have to accept it from his news feed > >(assuming it is under his control). Likewise for those who > >agree with him that net.women.only is "a waste of net > >resources". > >Long Live Net.women.only! > >Gail Bayley Hanrahan > >{ihnp4,decvax,ucbvax}!sdcsvax!calmasd!gail > > Right. And if David is administrator for a backbone machine, it is ok > with you that everyone getting their newsfeed from him can do without > it also, right? > > How about if the name gets changed to net.rabid.feminists? > (As opposed to net.feminists, a name which implies that men > might be acceptable also?) > > I'm sure David D. wouldn't care about the group name, then. > What's that? The name is offensive? But it's only so that women > can have their own space without MEN interfering! Do you mean to say, Rick, that men by definition cannot be rabid feminists? I've approached rabidness on this issue occasionally, and have observed it in other members of my sex. -- --Dwight Ernest KA2CNN \ Usenet:...vax135!timeinc!dwight Time Inc. Editorial Technology Group, New York City Voice: (212) 554-5061 \ Compuserve: 70210,523 Telemail: DERNEST/TIMECOMDIV/TIMEINC \ MCI: DERNEST "The opinions expressed above are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Time Incorporated, its management, or stockholders." -----------------------------------------------------------------------------