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From: daveb@geac.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Responsibility for postings.
Message-ID: <1691@geac.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 11:42:42 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 26 11:42:42 1987
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Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown)
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Summary: Quotes out of context ::= LIES
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In article <2140@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
>	However, there is one bit of unfinished business, necessitated by
>Ms. Maslak's recent article (she apparently could not leave well enough
>alone), which I present below:
>	The quotations at the end of this article apparently reflect
>Ms. Maslak's definition of "reasonable discussion".
>
>In article <5420@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, era1987@violet.berkeley.edu writes:
>> The reason scientists were more than 99% male for thousands of years,
>> is because they did science with the thing between their legs, having
>> little or nothing between their ears.

  Mr Lippman suggest that, since various female commentators have
voiced unkind opinions about verifiable historical facts (qv), he has
the untrammeled right to say unkind things to the participants in
the debate.  

  I suggest that this does not follow.  

  Further, I suggest that Mr.  Lippman's postings "are consistent
with a person attempting to keep others from speaking [posting] to a
subject by busying them with responding to personal and professional
attacks" (A paraphrase of my old Rhetoric textbook).

  -dave (this nigger is gettin PISSED OFF) c-b
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