Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ecn-pc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!ecn-pc!wdm From: wdm@ecn-pc.UUCP (William D Michael) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: domination Message-ID: <380@ecn-pc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 18:31:04 EDT Article-I.D.: ecn-pc.380 Posted: Fri Aug 30 18:31:04 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 1-Sep-85 12:16:04 EDT References: <40@csi> <616@rtech.UUCP> Reply-To: wdm@ecn-pc.UUCP (Tex) Distribution: net Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University Lines: 20 In article <616@rtech.UUCP> jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman) writes: >> >> net.women.only already exists for the purpose Karla described. >> >> I think Lori & Karla's remarks smack of sexism & seperatism. > >Learn your history. Net.women.only failed because some men insisted on posting >to it, despite its charter. The mail.feminists mailing list was created to >take its place. >-- >Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.) Why was a newsgroup even created in the first place? Mail -> private and exclusive; newsgroup -> public and open. bill michael. "Woe to he who tries to teach men faster than they can learn."