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From: thomas@shire.cs.psu.edu (Angela Marie Thomas)
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Subject: Re: Renewed call f/ discussion : ALT.KIDS
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In-Reply-To: joefritz@pawl.rpi.edu's message of 6 Dec 89 15:07:17 GMT

In article <^N+ZQ|@rpi.edu> joefritz@pawl.rpi.edu (Jochen M. Fritz) writes:
   The question is: do enough kids  have access to the  net to justify such
   a group?

I would say, yes.  With public access Unix systems and fidonet on
Usenet, anyone who has a computer and modem has access to Usenet.
Granted, 7-8 year olds might not be reading/posting, but I would
guess that 10+ year olds are reading/posting right under our noses!
(I know I was at 13 O:-)

If we encourage kids to read/post maybe we can discourage them from
becoming "bad" hackers by helping them to become "good" hackers.

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