NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/soc/bi/19084

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Newsgroups: soc.bi
Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!ieunet!tcdcs!maths.tcd.ie!longvalley!cjmchale
From: [e-mail] (Ciaran McHale)
Subject: Re: Orc's visit. FUN!FUN!FUN!
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Organization: DSG, Dept. of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin
References: <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:20:25 GMT
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Graham Toal) writes:
>[e-mail] (James G Dilmore) writes:
>:[some postings which described the events at a party may have outed
>:somebody against their wishes]
>
>I second what he says.  Not everyone is as out as the people in this group,
>and it's their right not to be and that should be respected; likewise there
>are people out in this group who aren't out everywhere to the same extent,
>eg I'm pretty well known as bi on words-l, and to some extent on alt.usage.
>english, but not as far as i know on comp.sys.acorn (for example) for
>reasons that are nobody's business but my own.  (This was the reason I
>was furious at Ciaran some time back, incidentally, for quoting me in
>his sigs (now forgiven, Ciaran, I'm just using it as an illustration of
>how people might be accidentally outed, not trying to start a flame war))

Just to set the record straight, I only posted such quotes to soc.bi and
soc.motss. (Just in case anybody thinks that I may have posted them to
comp.sys.acorn.) To be on the safe side, I now explicitly email people
for permission if I want to include something they said in my quotes
file.


Ciaran.
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