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From: greenber@acf4.UUCP (ross m. greenberg)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: In defense of Jeff S. in net.women.o
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Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 09:06:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  4 09:06:00 1985
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> Precedent is the assumption that someone else, somewhere else, who
> didn't know what was going to happen later, is somehow better suited
> for deciding what you should do than you are.

Precedent --> an act, decision, or case that may serve as a guide or
		justification to subsequent ones.

Notice that this definition (from Random House) doesn't attempt to
cast a judgement on the word.  And it uses the word "may", which
I have chosen to follow as a guide.

> (My own feelings are that net.women.only has a blatantly offensive
> title & writeup in net.announce.newusers, but that I won't post to it
> ...excluding accidents when I use followup & don't read the 
> distribution line.)
I agree.  Except of course to use it as a request to be put on the
invisible net.women.only mailing list :-)!!


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