Xref: utzoo news.sysadmin:1753 comp.mail.misc:1418 news.misc:2201 comp.mail.uucp:2406 news.admin:4128 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!gatech!ncar!tank!nic.MR.NET!xanth!mcnc!ecsvax!skyler 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 Lines: 20 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.] -- ============================================================================= -Trish "We're forced to begin in the midst of the hardest movement..." skyler@ecsvax.uncecs.edu -A. Rich