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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Reply to Greenberg
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Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 21:37:00 EDT
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Richard Carnes:
> As to whether net.women.only was an example of sexism, I don't think that
> that is what most people mean by the term, and men who posted to that
> newsgroup don't seem much different from party-crashers to me ...
> Apparently you think that there is something illegitimate about women
> wanting to have a conversation among themselves, and you seem to be
> anxious to prevent this from occurring.

As someone has already pointed out, a net newsgroup is by its nature
public, while a mailing list is by its nature private.  The feminist
mailing list, I'm told, exists.  This would, in my humble opinion, meet
any such need people might have for "conversations among themselves".
To have a public newsgroup that a significant majority of the people on the
net are excluded from _in_principle_ is abhorrent to me.

However: now that the feminist mailing list is in use and net.women.only
pretty much a piece of history, arguing about it seems less than productive.
Can we put this to rest?
-- 
Saumya Debray
SUNY at Stony Brook

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