Xref: utzoo news.groups:15586 alt.kids-talk:66 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!dptg!ulysses!atti07!althea!eddjp From: eddjp@althea.UUCP (Dewey Paciaffi) Newsgroups: news.groups,alt.kids-talk Subject: Re: You're Not A Kid! Message-ID: <452@althea.UUCP> Date: 12 Dec 89 17:27:42 GMT References: <1989Nov17.032939.11435@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1222@mondo.omni.com> <1989Nov26.043958.771@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <6352@hacgate.UUCP> <4389@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <846@disk.UUCP> Reply-To: eddjp@althea.UUCP (Dewey Paciaffi) Organization: Shakedown St. Public Access Unix - New Brunswick, NJ Lines: 40 Jim Sewell writes: -Sandro Wallach wrote: -> ->Who is this Antony guy, anyway? -> ->He sure doesn't sound like a kid to me. Listen to the way he talks! -> ->I think only real kids should be allowed to talk here! - -Unfortunately for you, as was pointed out earlier, this group goes out and is -part of a public network that is accessible to all people. There is not, nor -should there be, any way to separate subscribers by any category. Imagine if -comp.sys.ibm for example would only allow posts by ibm people. That would -not contribute anything to the computing society as a whole. You may have -guessed by the way I talk that I am not a kid either. If you have assumed -this you are correct... I am 24 years old. You discuss discrimination of -kids by adults, but are you any different trying to exclude all adults? Try -working together to eliminate competition amongst the generations. Let's -try community and not communism. I have to disagree with you here. I have 3 children ages 8 through 12, and I would like to see them post here, if the content of the posting found here seemed suitable, which it hasn't thus far. In your analogy of comp.sys.ibm, you missed the point, it seems to me. Although not restricted to IBM employees, the group does cater to owners and users of ibm equipment, and you would not be very sucessful if you submitted postings requesting configuration info about your VAX. Thus there is a de facto segregation of the net by interest and newsgroup. I would like to see a newsgroup where kids would be able to post with other kids, and not have to be annoyed by the adults who like to "make believe" they are children. Perhaps that's asking alot. Why shouldn't children be allowed to play on the net, post things of interest only to themselves, without having to be part of any noble cause such as promoting unity among the generations? Let them waste a little bandwidth, and learn how much fun it is. Dewey Paciaffi