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From: mason@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Mason)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.news.group
Subject: Re: net.women.only
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Date: Sun, 21-Aug-83 11:08:32 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 21 11:08:32 1983
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The obvious reason there are a lot of male people contributing to net.women is
that there are a lot more male people on the net than female people.  It seems
to me that the ratio in net.women is about 2:1 female:male but I could be wrong.
	The other, more important reason is that most of the articles are
really about people and human-value issues rather than "women"'s issues
Perhaps more appropriate would be a net.people for the current net.women
articles, leaving net.women for the things you wish to talk about.
	The nature of the whole net concept is so open that I don't
understand how you plan to have a net.whatever where you will feel comfortable
submitting.  If people start to use a group for something in particular, then
either people will read it, or they won't.  If it is very specific, then it
will tend to attract a limited, specific audience (how many people who are
not single (or contemplating/envying it) read net.single?).  If you start to
submit articles different from the current orientation of a group, either the
tone of the group will change, showing that you have raised a valid point, or
you will be flamed to death.  (Another reason I like net.women is that it is
quite accepting of any topic.)
(It's also possible to get lots of activity and flames, in which case it
really IS time for a new group.)
	But, if you think it's that important, let's move all this general
interest stuff to net.people and leave net.women to women only stuff!
(sorry, but I really don't understand (& I'm sure I'll get flamed for it))

 -- Gandalf's flunky Hobbit --   Dave Mason, U. Toronto CSRG,
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