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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: net.biology?
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Date: Sat, 3-Dec-83 20:07:40 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  3 20:07:40 1983
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I vote "yes".  There have already been some spontaneous biological
discussions which started up in peculiar and inappropriate newsgroups.
I am thinking, for example, of the "common female ancestor" discussion
which went on in net.roots, net.women and several other groups and the
(rather silly, in my opinion) "what is natural?" debate in net.religion.
I'm sure there were people on the net who would have found the discussions
interesting but either didn't read the newsgroups in which they occurred
or felt inhibited by the tone of the groups.  (It's rather hard to have a
reasonable exploration of non-human sexual behavior or the reactions of
rats to stress in the middle of a tirade about gays burning in hell, for
instance.)
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