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- From: dgilly@us.oracle.com (Daniel Gilly)
- Subject: Re: Bear Crap
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.212900.24865@oracle.us.oracle.com>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:29:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.163852.19134@spdcc.com> rdonahue@spdcc.com
- (Bob Donahue) writes:
-
- >I can think of two examples specifically that involve me:
- >whenever ANYone posts the NBCS to the net, I get hate mail from
- >people (and I mean pretty nasty stuff). When I was working on
- >the motss survey II, I had the gall to include NBCS as a thing
- >to fill in - this started a flame war on why this was
- >inappropriate for a "motss" thing since it made speicific
- >refererence to "the bears".
-
- I'm sincerely curious about your intention in supplying
- the "bear codes" in the survey. Is it OK for *anyone* use them?
- Is there a "party line" (among self-identified bears or among
- the larger soc.motss community) about this?
-
- I assume that the codes are intended to identify someone as a
- bear -- either to other bears or to bear-friendly people.
- In this case, a non-bear using the codes would be intruding on
- bear "safe-space", n'est-ce pas?
-
- On the other hand, some time (about a year) ago, I seem to
- recall someone (Steve Dyer??) saying that the bear codes can
- in fact be used to describe anyone. I don't know if he was
- being a mischievous devil's advocate or expressing his actual
- feelings, but this sounds like what you had in mind for the
- survey.
-
- Do you encourage the general use of bear codes as a shorthand
- for describing people, a la Personals section, or should their
- use be reserved to identify bears?
-
- I'm sure people would have no doubt about me if they saw my
- woefully non-bear codes of B0 w- h- f- ...; however, I think
- a lot of people harbor either ignorance or cautious sensitivity
- when it comes to the purpose of the codes. Maybe someone
- could shed some light on this.
-