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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: What's net.women for, anyway?
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Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 13:32:32 EDT
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> This is not women asking for special privileges.  It is a group of people
> (male and female) who share a particular interest asking that the group not
> be dominated by people who are not contributing to that interest.
> 
> It is a group of people frustrated because it really does appear that we
> are being discriminated against on the net...we are not accorded the
> same courtesy that other "minorities" (subscribers to net.politics,
> net.religion, etc.) are given.
 
I see your point, but you should probably be careful with your analogies.
I'm sure there's at least as much crap flying on net.politics and net.religion
as there is on net.women. And somehow I don't think that's what you meant by
"courtesy".
						Jeff Winslow