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From: ajh@sdcsvax.UUCP (Alan Hu)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re:  net.women.only
Message-ID: <3687@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Aug-83 15:03:04 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 24 15:03:04 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Aug-83 03:13:51 EDT
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What good would having a net.women.only do?  How could you keep it from
getting overrun by aggressive males? (:-) kind of) How can you stop them
from reading it?  (You could set up a shell script to send a flame every
30 seconds to every male who contributes an article :-).)  Seriously,
the main point for having net.women.only is to have a forum for
women.  Why not make net.women fill this need?  Nothing prevents any
of you females out there from making this newgroup a group for
women.  You just have to contribute articles for women.  If
some rude, obnoxious person flames at you, flame back.  That's what
we all do in every other group.  Finally, I resent being excluded
from a group because my maleness supposedly implies that I know
nothing about topics like monthly pain, etc.  I feel that that is as
offensive as people asking for "wise men" to reply to their queries
on the net.  My mother happens to be a physician, and both my mother
and my sister get menstual (sp?) cramps.  I might be able to provide
useful knowledge (New drugs/progress/information/etc.), and I don't
think that I should be excluded simply because of my sex.

					--Alan J. Hu
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