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From: terry@nrcvax.UUCP (Terry Grevstad)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: men dominate net.women (flame-ish)
Message-ID: <222@nrcvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 21:05:47 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 18 21:05:47 1985
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Reply-To: terry@nrcvax.UUCP (Terry Grevstad)
Organization: Network Research Research Corp.  Oxnard,CA
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Summary: 

karla@drutx.UUCP (RikansrudKB) says:
>
>
>With the exception of Adreienne, Moira, Jeanette, Sophic, S. Badian, 
>Sunny, and a few others, very few women submit to this group.  I think 
>many women read it, (or would read it) but don't want to get involved 
>in these often trivial discussions (like myself).  Plus, many of you 
>guys come off as if you'd chew them up and spit them out.  (Some of 
>you are often *truely* unkind.) 
>
>As has been said recently (by a man with insight), there is no net.men 
>because men dominate *all* of the newsgroups.  (Why do you suppose 
>net.women.only and a private women's mailing list were started?)
>Please give us a break and dominate everything else, but not
>this newsgroup!  Thanks.
>                        Very Sincerely,
>
>                        Karla Rikansrud
>                        AT&T Information Systems
>                        11900 N Pecos,  Denver, CO 80234
>                        drutx!karla

Being one of those "many women (who) read it ... but don't want to get
involved in these often trivial discussions" may I say, Here! Here!
Karla!  Thank you very much.

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                                                       Terry Grevstad
                                         Network Research Corporation
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