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From: skyler@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Patricia Roberts)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,comp.mail.misc,news.misc,comp.mail.uucp,news.admin
Subject: Re: bigoted racist misuse of email and computer accounts must be dealt with
Keywords: sysadmins should act to stop racist email
Message-ID: <5917@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 88 22:24:32 GMT
References: <10676@ihlpa.ATT.COM> <11242@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: skyler@ecsvax.UUCP (Patricia Roberts)
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <10676@ihlpa.ATT.COM> davidm@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Makowsky) cites an
instance of abusive email.

It is my guess that most women on the net who have gotten involved in any
substantial debate have received an almost identical piece of mail.  The
ethnic aspersion may be left out, but there's usually some other adjective
in its place.

Some of the mail has been even more threatening.  

Perhaps it is not something restricted to women; I don't know.  

[For some reason, the "eat shit" letter doesn't bother me as much as the
other--I don't know why.]

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-Trish 		 		"We're forced to begin
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skyler@ecsvax.uncecs.edu                                    -A. Rich