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Subject: Re: proposed 'mail' newsgroup for femini - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 19-Feb-84 05:53:37 EST
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***** inmet:net.women.only / watmath!jamcmullan / 10:48 am  Feb 15, 1984

>  1) Would you prefer that the group be moderated and that the moderator
>     keep the mailing list?

I'd like to see the group moderated.  One of the things I suggested to
Sophie in a letter is that we have a "moderator of the month(s)", so that
one person doesn't have to do it from now until whenever.

I think that if we do have a moderator, it would be *relatively* easy
for members to mail commments, articles, questions to the moderator and
then have the moderator mail a "newsletter" to all the people on the
group.  

The other advantage is that, if only the moderator has the mailing list,
it will be easier to keep the names from falling into "the wrong hands".
Although if anybody really wants to waste their time sending stupid mail,
they already have Sophie's, Judy's and my net addresses.  We'll find
out soon enough about it.

>  2) Do we want women only on the list? (and how can we tell if someone
>     

I vote yes, at least initially.  While there are several men who regularly
post to net.women whose inputs would be valuable, if we "allow the men
in", all we'll really have is net.women by mail.  If people (men and
women) won't let women.only be women only, then why don't we try and
keep this that way.

I'm not particularly happy with this, but I think it's worth a try.

If the majority want a "women-only" group, I think the best way to make
sure that a person is female is to require the office phone number and
call.  It's sad that we'd have to do this, but it would work.

3) Do we only want feminists in the group?

Well, I think that most of the women on the net are feminists to
some degree, especially those who are interested in this idea.  As
far as myself, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being Phyllis Schlafly and
10 being Gloria Steinem, I'm probably a 7 or 8.  I'm not a "radical"
feminist, and I don't read Ms magazine although I do read Working
Woman.

We're going to have a tough enough time getting this started and
going without trying to screen the women who want to get in.  I think
that we'll find that most of the women getting involved will be feminists,
more or less.

Beth Mazur
{ima,harpo,esquire}!inmet!mazur