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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: More on mailing lists
Message-ID: <3677@tekecs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Apr-84 17:52:33 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr  7 17:52:33 1984
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Just had to put my two cents in...

   I don't think one should expect to be *invited* to the mailing list. Are
any of us so special that we deserve such an invitation? Just ask - don't be
bashful.

   Don't ask me, though, because I'm not on it. Nor do I want to be. The
reason is that I can't for the life of me take USENET seriously when I see
what gets submitted to it.  It's just cheap (???) entertainment. That doesn't
mean I don't think people believe what they write, just that ultimately
it accomplishes nothing. People who regard USENET as a great experiment in
international communications I regard with amused tolerance.

   Can a mailing list really be any different?  What is a mailing list but
USENET with the obnoxious and iconoclastic left out?  The former is good,
but the latter is a pity, and there's still plenty of room for the usual
silliness (including my own). No, thanks.

                                       enjoying the open spaces,
                                             Jeff Winslow