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From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: men dominate net.women (flame-ish)
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Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 09:56:56 EDT
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>                 From Karla Rikansrud:
> 
> 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
>                                        
> Don't you men think this is a little peculiar?  Do you all
> think that each little passing thought is *so* insightful/unique/clever
> /whatever that you *must* post each one to the net?  SPARE US!  
> Stream of consciousness is not appropriate for this forum.
> 
I believe what you should tally is the number of women on the net compared to
the number of men.  You may find that the response from women is then propor- 
ionate.  If it is not proporionate then it may perhaps show that the male tends
to be or get more involved with the issues.  And if this is the case, SO WHAT!
>