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From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: More on Mailing Lists
Message-ID: <2376@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Apr-84 22:53:44 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  5 22:53:44 1984
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Nonsense!  The list doesn't separate women from net.women.  Women who are
part of the list have also posted things to net.women recently - I suspect
that the ones who posted before continue posting, and the ones who didn't
post before continue not to.  So what have you lost by the existence of
the list?

I get the strong impression that you believe that someone should either
be willing to defend their views to the world, or be silent entirely.
Why can there be no middle ground?  Are there not things which you would
discuss with a group of friends but would not proclaim to the world at
large?

And it isn't difficult, at least in theory, to "filter out the hostile
ones", since
1) the hostile ones are likely to complain about the existence of
the list rather than ask to be added to it ( ;-) ), and
2) one person handles distribution of articles, so it is trivial for her to
reject an article from someone or to cease forwarding mail to that person
altogether if she feels it necessary.