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From: david@bragvax.UUCP (David DiGiacomo)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: proposed removal of net.women.only
Message-ID: <264@bragvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 03:08:58 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 28 03:08:58 1984
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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 ...

No, that wouldn't help-- I would have to get my news feeds to restrict
net.women.only in their respective sys files.  Admittedly this is not
much different, although it could be a problem for some sites.  I am
more concerned about a sort of Gresham's law of newsgroups; if "if the
mailing list exist please put me on it" messages are being sent to
Korea, more interesting messages will be crowded out.

In article <471@uwmacc.UUCP> rick@maccunix.UUCP (Rick Keir) writes:
>How about if the name gets changed to net.rabid.feminists?

This name would be acceptable only if it accurately described the group;
I don't think that such a group would support much traffic. (:-))

>I'm sure David D. wouldn't care about the group name, then ...

The net.women.only group was a noble experiment, and I'm very sorry that
it failed.  When I raised the issue (and I am sincerely sorry!),
net.women.only had degenerated into net.women.only-request.  A newsgroup
is not an appropriate place for mailing list requests.
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