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From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Restricting posting privileges
Message-ID: <125.24183820@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 10 Mar 89 20:52:25 GMT
Organization: A neat desk is a sign of a crazy person.
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In article <21422@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, nj@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Narciso Jaramillo) writes:

 >I think the controversy will eventually boil down to whether people
 >feel USENET should be a large, open forum, or a more restricted,
 >"professional" network.  The latter opinion would lead to such
 >questions as whether large commercial sites (e.g. Portal) and large
 >BBS networks (e.g. FidoNet) should be denied USENET feeds, in view of
 >the large number of young and nonprofessional posters from those
 >sites.              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Hold it.  Young != Nonprofessional.  I'm 13; should I be banned from the net?  Since when does Fidonet have a "large number of young and nonprofessional posters" on it?  Sure, there aren't as many university students (because Usenet is more common on university machines than Fidonet), but that doesn't mean that they are any more or less professional than you are.

Don't make sweeping generalizations; more likely than not, you'll be wrong about at least one member of the group.

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