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From: jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Do you restrict your users?
Message-ID: <49@dynasys.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 90 17:58:57 GMT
References: <90042.134648LRL@PSUVM.BITNET> <1990Feb12.052427.4143@agate.berkeley.edu> <1990Feb13.032400.4120@eng.umd.edu> <1990Feb13.103312
Reply-To: jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher)
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In article <1990Feb13.103312.12941@agate.berkeley.edu> gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) writes:
>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:

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>
>>>  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



Well, with that kind of logic, let's take it a bit further.  Since
undergrads tend to make more useless comments than grads, I guess that
means that grads make more useless postings than those that have already
attained their masters or Phds.  So what we should do is limit postings
from all who have not already attained a degree so we can keep all of the
stupidity off of the net.  Or perhaps we just just limit postings to those
which have a Phd and/or have been reading usenet articles for a year. 
Which means you wouldn't have been able to post this inane article.  
Should have done it sooner.




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