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- From: andy@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (Andy Freeman)
- Subject: Re: the US elections...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.192550.2832@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
- Followup-To: talk.politics.guns
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- References: <1992Nov9.235916.21601@csus.edu> <1992Nov11.083707.29169@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> <1992Nov20.200317.13192@eskimo.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:25:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.200317.13192@eskimo.com> feathers@eskimo.com (Cheryl Owen) writes:
- > If there's no answer to this then I'll assume that the gun nut
- >types are posting about guns indiscriminately wherever they will and
- >that no one else really minds, or perhaps even notices since they seem
- >to do it a *lot*.
-
- Not at all. The gun controllers/banners post in inappropriate groups
- and the pro-gun people respond in those groups.* (The pro-gun people
- also try to move the discussion - look at the followup-to of this
- message.) That suggests both a strategy and a target if you want to
- keep icky gun topics out of your pure pagan newsgroup.
-
- If you're unwilling to address the root of a thread ....
-
- Some of the people who initiate gun discussions in inappropriate
- groups also initiate other discussions in those groups.
-
- -andy
-
- * - The alternative is to concede the argument.
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