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  1. Newsgroups: soc.motss
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!unpc!rogerk
  3. From: rogerk@QueerNet.ORG (Roger B.A. Klorese)
  4. Subject: Re: Bear Crap
  5. Sender: usenet@queernet.org (USENET Software)
  6. Message-ID: <Bxw8yD.K9w@queernet.org>
  7. Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:11:00 GMT
  8. References: <1992Nov16.041138.8829@tc.cornell.edu> <michaelh.721908229@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> <1992Nov16.163852.19134@spdcc.com> <1992Nov17.212900.24865@oracle.us.oracle.com>
  9. Nntp-Posting-Host: unpc
  10. Organization: QueerNet
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  12.  
  13. In article <1992Nov17.212900.24865@oracle.us.oracle.com>, dgilly@us.oracle.com
  14. (Daniel Gilly) writes:
  15. |> I'm sincerely curious about your intention in supplying
  16. |> the "bear codes" in the survey.  Is it OK for *anyone* use them?
  17. |> Is there a "party line" (among self-identified bears or among
  18. |> the larger soc.motss community) about this?
  19.  
  20. They're not for *use* by bears... they're for *interpretation* by bears of
  21. little brain.
  22.  
  23. |> Do you encourage the general use of bear codes as a shorthand
  24. |> for describing people, a la Personals section, or should their
  25. |> use be reserved to identify bears? 
  26.  
  27. I think their use should be reserved to identify the end of a posting...
  28. generally something to which I look forward with joy on any posting that carries
  29. one. 
  30. -- 
  31. ROGER B.A. KLORESE                                              +1 415 ALL-ARFF
  32. rogerk@unpc.QueerNet.ORG              {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!sgiblab!unpc!rogerk
  33. "Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."
  34.                                                                    -- J. Foster
  35.