Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uvacs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!rwl From: rwl@uvacs.UUCP (Ray Lubinsky) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: In defense of net.women.only (FLAME and CONTRAFLAME) Message-ID: <1787@uvacs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 13-Jan-85 11:14:05 EST Article-I.D.: uvacs.1787 Posted: Sun Jan 13 11:14:05 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 04:37:52 EST References: <580006@acf4.UUCP> <1178@ut-ngp.UUCP> Organization: U.Va. CS dept. Charlottesville, VA Lines: 30 > > 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] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ray Lubinsky University of Virginia, Dept. of Computer Science uucp: decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!rwl