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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: men dominate net.women (flame-ish)
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Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 21:14:18 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 20 21:14:18 1985
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> After ignoring most this newsgroup for a while, because of the
> plethora of male-submitted, uninteresting articles, I decided to go
> through some articles and tally up the submitters.  This resulted
> in some interesting statistics:
>  
> Of the first 141 articles: 41 were from women
>                           100 were from men
>                                        
> Thinking this was rather phenomenal, I did the same thing to
> the next 142 articles, this time: 34 were from women
>                                   108 were from men
>                                        

If you're annoyed at the low SNR in this newsgroup (a phenomenon not peculiar
to this group, by the by), that's a valid reason for complaint: but it's
not clear to me that one can reasonably argue along the lines of "75% of
the articles here are from males, ipso facto the SNR here is low".  Yes, I
too wish people were more circumspect about hitting the "f" key -- but I'm
not sure males are somehow genetically more predisposed towards thoughtless
followups, here or in any other newsgroup.

If you're annoyed at the fact that males submit articles to this group at
all, that's another story ... and this we can pursue in net.flame!
-- 
Saumya Debray
SUNY at Stony Brook

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