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From: apratt@iuvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: About net.men - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 29-Jan-84 21:44:52 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 29 21:44:52 1984
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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."



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