Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site acf4.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!philabs!cmcl2!acf4!greenber From: greenber@acf4.UUCP (ross m. greenberg) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: In defense of Jeff S. in net.women.o Message-ID: <580001@acf4.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 09:06:00 EST Article-I.D.: acf4.580001 Posted: Fri Jan 4 09:06:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 7-Jan-85 01:49:08 EST References: <-63700@bunker> Organization: New York University Lines: 21 > 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 :-)!! ------------------------------------------------------ Ross M. Greenberg @ NYU ----> { allegra,ihnp4 }!cmcl2!acf4!greenber <----