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From: rwl@uvacs.UUCP (Ray Lubinsky)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: In defense of net.women.only (FLAME and CONTRAFLAME)
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Date: Sun, 13-Jan-85 11:14:05 EST
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> > I think the rule in question stinks --- but I will abide by it until it
> > is changed.  [Ross M. Greenberg]
> 
> I'm offended by you being offended by the rule that only women
> are supposed to post in net.women.only!  WHY IN THE !"#$%& DO
> YOU REALLY CARE?!  Don't women have enough problems in this limp
> society without silly people like you trying to bust up their
> discussions?!  [Ken Montgomery]

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   Ah, noble knight, defender of the down-trodden!  I'm meta-offended.  Why
should there be a net.anything.only?  I don't even subscribe to the group in
question, but if I did I would want to feel free to post occasionally.  What's
the point of artificially-induced separatism?

   The title "net.women.only" implies (to me, anyway) that the discussions
probably wouldn't interest me too much.  As far as I'm concerned, _this_ is the
rule which keeps me from posting there.  If things are being posted that are
also of interest to men, then what's the problem with men joining in on the
discussion?  Wouldn't it be silly, if there was a "net.men.only" and we hung
a big sign over it that read, "NO GIRLZ ALLOWED!!"?

   I thought so.  Here's to ya, Ross!  I also think the rule in question stinks
-- but I will abide by it until I don't.

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Ray Lubinsky		     University of Virginia, Dept. of Computer Science
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