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From: era1987@violet.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Warning: Offensive to techies
Message-ID: <7996@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 25 Mar 88 07:33:23 GMT
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Reply-To: era1987@violet.berkeley.edu (Mark Ethan Smith)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Summary: Yes, please move it out of soc.women!



In article <338@dsinc.UUCP>, bcs212@vader.UUCP writes:
> 
> However, while you're ripping each other and the cooperative network
> that made all this ripping possible, how about taking the conversation
> elsewhere, OK ??? It may be hard to believe, but I'm administering new
s
> as part of my job, not for a giggle.  I read news.admin to learn how t
o
> do my job better so I can keep the above mentioned job and put food on
> the table.  I don't have the time or the inclination to read this stuf
f
> any more.  It was funny at first, then mildly amusing, now it's gettin
g
> a little sily isn't it ?

In <23395@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> in soc.women, robinson@ernie.berkeley.edu
(Michael Robinson) writes:
>As you've said, this is a public forum, a well-established public forum
, and
>one which has a definite focus and purpose.  The question I raise is sh
ould
>this forum, as a public forum, tolerate those participants who object t
o the
>existance of a forum with such a focus and purpose, and whose objective
 it
>is to disrupt or destroy this forum?

In <8033@cisunx.UUCP> sppst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Sean P. 
Palmer) writes:

>   remember "Public" == Free Speech. Even though people may disagree
>with others, we have no right to tell them to stop saying it....or
>even where to stop saying it. Telling someone this is flat out WRONG.


Bit of a difference of opinion here, eh chaps?

Vince, I can see how deliberate disruptions can try your patience
when you are getting paid to administer news.  Can you see how they
can try the patience of those whoo are PAYING to access news?

--Mark