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- From: jim@zeus.tamu.edu (SPIKE)
- Subject: No women posting ? I tell you why..
- Message-ID: <17NOV199214520055@zeus.tamu.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:52:00 GMT
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- >>Martina Schollmeyer (martinas@cs.umr.edu) wrote:
- >>: Dear male alt.personals readers:
- >
- > [stuff deleted]
- >
- >>: I did not, and I would like to repeat this, I DID NOT post a personal
- >>: ad looking for e-mail pen pals or for a date. Now for all of
- >>: you who sent me e-mail of that kind, think about it for a
- >>: moment please: if I had wanted that kind of response I would
- >>: have posted a personal.
- >>
- >>The group alt.personals is a place to post personals ads, so if
- >>you get email :of that kind" in response to a posting here, you're
- >>only getting what you deserve.
- >>
- >>Think about it. :-)
- >
- >I think about that a lot actually. It just makes me feel even more
- >convicted to declare again that this is exactly the attitude that keeps
- >many women from posting here: because some men think just because we
- >post they can fill our mailboxes with whiny junkmail. I think we deserve
- >to be treated with respect, and as a matter of fact, most men do. But
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >maybe the remaining ones who do stuff like that just can't be helped :(
- >I really don't want to post any of the mail I have received (for obvious
- >reasons) but some of it was just not appropriate.
-
- *****************
-
- Wait a minute! Who wants to be treated with respect here? Most of our
- posters are rife for abuse, the kind we can't get every day. Respect.
- Phooey! That's for Aretha Franklin.
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