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- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!panix!pw
- From: pw@panix.com (Paul Wallich)
- Subject: Re: soc.motss.*
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.222907.1326@panix.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:29:07 GMT
- References: <thaaang.725058794@cwis> <72279@cup.portal.com> <1992Dec23.185307.6890@tc.cornell.edu>
- Organization: Trivializers R Us
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- In article <1992Dec23.185307.6890@tc.cornell.edu> shore@dinah.tc.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore) writes:
- >In article <72279@cup.portal.com> Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison) writes:
- >>Tch, John. Such a stereotypically exclusionary list you wrote.
- >
- >So look who's talking. If we want to make sure that lesbians
- >feel welcome, we'll have to create soc.lesbigay.birkenstock,
- >soc.lesbigay.rayon (for the bowling-shirted among us),
- >soc.lesbigay.interlock (for the polo shirt and turtleneck-
- >wearing dykes), soc.lesbigay.handknit (for the earth mothers,
- >although one might anticipate some overlap with soc.lesbigay.
- >birkenstock), and so on.
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- All this inclusionary list stuff is imo just fragmenting the
- motss community and serving as an incitement to reckless
- crossposting (ulp).
-
- I'd like to propose a much simpler division:
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- soc.lesbigay.us
- soc.lesbigay.them
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- paul (well, _maybe_ motss.info....)
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