Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!rick From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: In defense of Jeff S. in net.women.o Message-ID: <639@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 18:16:01 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.639 Posted: Thu Jan 3 18:16:01 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 7-Jan-85 02:21:12 EST References: <637@bunker.UUCP> <8200056@acf4.UUCP> Reply-To: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (Rick Keir) Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 26 Summary: In article <8200056@acf4.UUCP> greenber@acf4.UUCP writes: > The rule in question is whether or not men should >post to net.women.only. I feel that men should not, since this is a rule >that has been inherent in the net since before either of us started >using the net. Cliff (forgive me for paraphrasing, sir!) feels that >by men utilizing net.women.only that this somehow should be considered >civil disobedience on a par with Gandhi and Martin Luthor King. "before either of us starting using the net." 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. (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.) -- "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less" -- Humpty Dumpty, the noted linguist Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC 1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706 {allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!rick