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From: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: net.med,net.women
Subject: Re: Saving Lives
Message-ID: <1653@hammer.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-Nov-85 00:46:43 EST
Article-I.D.: hammer.1653
Posted: Fri Nov 22 00:46:43 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 24-Nov-85 05:48:25 EST
References: <3000@sun.uucp> <697@lasspvax.UUCP> <54@midas.UUCP>
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Summary: 

[ net.motss, net.nlang.africa, net.singles removed from newsgroups: line ]

In article <54@midas.UUCP> jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) writes:
>In article <697@lasspvax.UUCP> cheryl@lasspvax.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart) writes:
>>In article <3000@sun.uucp> wild@sun.uucp (Will Doherty) writes:
>>>Let people know about how AIDS works.  
>>>
>>> [many detailed descriptions of sex acts]

>>This does not belong in net.women any more than it belongs in
>>net.music or net.rec.birds.  Sure, women have sex, but so do
>>people who birdwatch or listen to music.  Just because the 
>>classification of women as a group is based on sexual anatomy
>>does not make this a forum for discussion of sexual practices,
>>or diseases incurred thereby.  

>But medical issues are right out, huh? AIDS *is* a social and medical
>issue that affect women as individuals and as a group. If it doesn't
>affect you, good. But that's hardly a reason to flame. Quite the contrary.

Sure, and it also affects birdwatchers, and unix-wizards, and people
who watch tv, and pretty much everyone who reads any group on the
net.  That doesn't mean it should be posted to every group there is!
AIDS is a medical problem and belongs in net.med.  Period.

Those interested in reading information about AIDS may subscribe
to net.med.  Those interested in whatever net.women is doing these days
(I gave up on net.women a while back due to a poor S/N ratio) but
not interested in AIDS shouldn't have to wade through a bunch of
AIDS articles.

Taking your thinking to it's logical conclusion, there would be
one newsgroup.  What a mess.  Usenet is collapsing under it's own
weight, and posting articles to umpty-zillion newsgroups isn't
helping.

Snoopy (ECS Ronin #901)
tektronix!tekecs!doghouse.TEK!snoopy

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