Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site bunker.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ittatc!bunker!wtm From: wtm@bunker.UUCP (William T. McGarry) Newsgroups: net.kids,net.med,net.news,net.news.group Subject: New news group about handicapped? Message-ID: <921@bunker.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 00:28:15 EDT Article-I.D.: bunker.921 Posted: Sun Aug 11 00:28:15 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 01:00:52 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Bunker Ramo, Trumbull Ct Lines: 28 Xref: watmath net.kids:1655 net.med:2048 net.news:3811 net.news.group:3434 I would like to know if there is any interest out there in starting a news group about handicapped people. My 2 1/2 year old son, Alexander, has Down's Syndrome so naturally I would be most interested in articles about handicapped children and particulary about children with Down's. But there are many areas which are common to all handicapped people of all ages and I feel that a news group about all handicapped people would be helpful to both handicapped people themselves as well as relatives and friends. Please feel free to either respond to me directly via e-mail or to post an article. In either case, I will present some sort of summary in several weeks, and if there is enough interest, I will try to get the new group started. Bill McGarry decvax!ittatc!bunker!wtm (203) 386-2749 --Even though I am generally against posting one article to more than one news group, I am posting this article to several groups that seem appropriate since this is an important issue to me. --Some people object to the word handicapped. If you are one of these people, please don't flame me. Instead, tell me a better way to say it.