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From: tittle@alexandre-dumas.ics.uci.edu (Cindy Tittle)
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Subject: Re: Soc.feminism
Message-ID: <1989Nov20.171919.24870@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 21 Nov 89 01:19:19 GMT
References: <128159@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: tittle@alexandre-dumas.ics.uci.edu (Cindy Tittle)
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In-reply-to: williamt@athena1.Sun.COM (William A. Turnbow)

In article <128159@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, williamt@athena1 (William A. Turnbow) writes:
|In article <21323@usc.edu> gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit) writes:
|>The following posting was rejected by the moderators of soc.feminism:
|...........[deleted text]....
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|
|    When soc.feminism first came out I tried to read and post rational
|middle of the road replies.  I quickly found most of my responses
|being dropped on the floor.  I also learned that if I submitted it
|enough times, due to the random rotation of their moderation, I might
|eventually get a submitted response printed.  It wasn't worth it.

There was trouble at the beginning with getting articles.  We were
testing out for the first time software to enable multiple moderators.
We posted a number of explanations during the shake-out period as to
what was going on.  I don't believe there is a problem any more -- we
have not had any complaints about missing articles for some time now.

|    They didn't want middle of the road rhetoric, or fairness in dealing
|with men.  As the quoted article you included exemplifed, they wanted
|a forum for man-bashing without men being allowed to participate (except
|for those men who had been through retraining and were willing to man-bash
|as well).

Insofar as Hillel is one of the major posters to soc.feminism, unless
you wish to designate him as a man-basher, I suggest that your
perception is inaccurate.

--Cindy


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