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From: mccolm@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: How to keep idiots, slime, males & ETs from dominating net.women
Message-ID: <6745@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 16:54:34 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 30 16:54:34 1985
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References: <172@gargoyle.UUCP>
Reply-To: mccolm@ucla-cs.UUCP (Eric McColm)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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Summary: 

In article <172@gargoyle.UUCP> carnes@gargoyle.UUCP (Richard Carnes) writes:
>One reason that so many netnews articles are written by idiots and
>jerks is that the non-idiots and non-jerks respond to their articles.
>Some net-posters write articles simply in order to get a response of
>some kind (Ken Arndt is the master at this).  If you reply to such a
>person, you gratify his wish and encourage a repeat performance.
>
>Richard Carnes, ihnp4!gargoyle!carnes

Gee, this sounds familiar.  Maybe what we really need is a new news group
just for these people.  Call it net.flasher.

This also puts such behavior in it's proper category:  something that
women shouldn't have to put up with.
--fini--

Eric McColm
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