Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rochester.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!ray From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: men dominate net.women (flame-ish) Message-ID: <11110@rochester.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 09:56:56 EDT Article-I.D.: rocheste.11110 Posted: Mon Aug 19 09:56:56 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 15:16:27 EDT References: <175@drutx.UUCP> Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept. Lines: 24 > 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! >