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From: gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Do you restrict your users?
Message-ID: <1990Feb13.103312.12941@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 90 10:33:12 GMT
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In-reply-to: smaug@eng.umd.edu (Kurt Lidl)

In article <1990Feb13.032400.4120@eng.umd.edu>, smaug@eng (Kurt
Lidl) writes:
>In article <1990Feb12.052427.4143@agate.berkeley.edu>
gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) writes:

>>  One possibility would be to restrict undergraduates to a
>>smaller distribution. Most of what undergraduates have to say is
>                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>of no interest to anyone anywhere anyway.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>Let's hear it for bad generalizations in poor taste again.  Didn't
>we just go through this 6 months ago?  Just because someone doesn't
>have a degree doesn't make them inane conversationists or make
>their postings less valuable.

  That is not what I said, even if you take the hyperbole
literally. The point is, undergraduates are quite a bit more
likely to make inane, stupid or ignorant comments on the net.
This is not theory, this is observation. Penn State's policies
are not helping the net, and they are certainly not helping the
image of Penn State, which has become a byword and a laughing
stock.

>I would rather read ten uninteresting postings from these
>maligned poeple than one ignorant posting from a person who is
>bigoted against the youth of America.

  If they are ignorant then I am not maligning them, am I?
Just because you like to read stupid junk does not entail
that everyone else does or should.

  Maybe there should be an undergraduate keyword somewhere in
each undergraduate posting which would allow a global KILL?

>>ucbvax!garnet!gsmith          Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
>>"I am quite prepared to prove in court that I am neither stupid nor insane."
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>I doubt it, I really doubt it.  Why *else* would you make such an
>absurd statement?

  That funny-looking symbol " is called a quotation mark. Since
you evidently don't know what it means, I suggest you find out.
It *is* important.