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From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Proposed Guidelines Change (was Re: A Few Observations)
Summary: A dissenting opinion
Message-ID: <1734@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 22 Nov 89 15:16:45 GMT
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In article <5969@unix.SRI.COM>, maslak@unix.SRI.COM (Valerie Maslak) writes:
> In article <36675@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
> >In both directions. The name 'comp.women' was chosen for political purposes;
> >a political fight should not then be surprising.
 
> That's a bunch of boloney. 
  
> The truth is that the proposers and the voters thought that
> comp.women was a fine group name that made sense in the hierarchy.
> Certain members of the junta didn't agree. THEY injected the
> politics.

That the proposers and those who voted for the group may have thought it
a fine name, but many others, who have no connection with the "junta",
considered, and still consider, the group to have essentially nothing
to do with computing in any way.

I still believe that the main reason for this group is to have a female-
moderated group for discussing women's issues with a comp designator.

| Chuq refers to guidelines versus rules. IT SEEMS THAT HE AND A FEW
| OTHERS CAN MAKE RULES; the rest of us have to settle for
| guidelines.
| 
| Valerie Maslak


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Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907
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