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From: twiss@stolaf.UUCP (Thomas S. Twiss)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: The mailing list
Message-ID: <1634@stolaf.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Apr-84 21:04:45 EST
Article-I.D.: stolaf.1634
Posted: Wed Apr 11 21:04:45 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Apr-84 20:33:05 EST
Organization: St. Olaf College, Northfield MN
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>The mailing list is a private club.  Nothing more and nothing less.
>Membership seems to be decided by the existing members, with a strong
>bias in favour of women and a strong bias against anyone given to a lot
>of flaming.  

	Wrong.  If anyone has ever been rejected (which I strongly doubt),
	then it's becuase the moderator is deluged.  No preference is 
	given to anyone over anyone else.

>The above is just my guess.  Since I am not a member of the club, I don't
>know much about it.  

	Then don't flame about it unless you do.

>Nor do I wish to join the club.

	Then why are you making such a fuss?

>                      Carlo @ the U of Waterloo
>                P.S.  Haven't we beaten this to death by now?

	I certainly think so, and if you do, why did you write the
	article?

	The point being that the mailing list was not set up as an
exclusionary group at all, and to my knowledge, no one has been excluded.
The only consideration is the size of the group and the over-work of the
moderator.  If you want, I'LL even forward messages to some of you.  So why
don't we quit complaining ok?


Flames cheerfully ignored or returned postage due.  Questions and
intelligent discussion welcomed by:

				Tom Twiss
			...{decvax|ihnp4}!stolaf!twiss