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From: jcsewell@disk.UUCP (Jim Sewell)
Newsgroups: news.groups,alt.kids-talk
Subject: Re: You're Not A Kid!
Message-ID: <952@disk.UUCP>
Date: 26 Dec 89 14:43:09 GMT
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In article <33190@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> marie@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Marie desJardins) writes:
>In article <452@althea.UUCP> eddjp@althea.UUCP (Dewey Paciaffi) writes:
>>Jim Sewell writes:
>>-Sandro Wallach wrote:
>>->I think only real kids should be allowed to talk here!
>>-
>>-part of a public network that is accessible to all people.  
>>
>>I would like to see a newsgroup where kids would be able to post with other
>>kids, and not have to be annoyed by the adults who like to "make believe"
>>they are children. Perhaps that's asking alot.
>
>Hear, hear!  If this is going to be a forum for "real" kids then I
>think the older "kid wannabes" and near-adults (like Antony) should
>pipe down and see if we can't encourage younger kids (let's say in
>the pre-high-school age frame) to speak up.

You missed my point entirely.  <You being both and not directed at Marie>.
I was responding to the comment saying "Anyone over x years old has to shaddup".
I am all for the younger folks using and becoming aquainted with computers and
the net!  I would love it if all people felt comfortable posting in all groups.

I was not trying to discourage posting by "kids" but rather the snobbish 
exclusion of adults whose opinions are also to be valued.

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