Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pur-ee.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!iuvax!apratt From: apratt@iuvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: About net.men - (nf) Message-ID: <1493@pur-ee.UUCP> Date: Sun, 29-Jan-84 21:44:52 EST Article-I.D.: pur-ee.1493 Posted: Sun Jan 29 21:44:52 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 06:22:54 EST Sender: notes@pur-ee.UUCP Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University Lines: 31 #N:iuvax:9200003:000:1213 iuvax!apratt Jan 29 16:37:00 1984 I would like to bring new light to a subject I've seen both here and in net.women.only: the possibility of a newsgroup net.men. I remind those whose perspective has lapsed that the name of a newsgroup is intended to suggest the topics discussed therein, not the readership. With this in mind, net.men would be an excellent newsgroup for men and women. Women could ask about men and expect men to respond. Men could discuss such manly things as circumcision and the relative merits of feminism (which more accurately should be called humanism, except by those seeking female dominance). The point is that net.men *is* an appropriate newsgroup, and net.men.only might be, too (but I doubt it). It certainly would be nice if men would refrain from posting in net.women.only (a title which *does* identify the intended readership), but I must say that's unlikely. Will anyone argue with me about net.men? I know I would subscribe to it... (I am putting this note here in net.women because the discussion is here. Further discussion specifically about net.men might usefully move to net.news.group, a place for "the discussion ... of news groups." ---- -- Allan Pratt ...decvax!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!apratt