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- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!geac!zooid!goid
- From: Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org>
- Subject: Proposal for reorgan (1)
- X-To: DAVE GROSS
- Organization: The Zoo of Ids
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 23:32:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.022526.762@zooid.guild.org>
- Sender: Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org>
- Lines: 80
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- dgross@zeus.calpoly.edu (Dave Gross) writes...
-
- (All of these ideas sound great so far! I have deleted the list to save
- space).
-
- DG> soc.manumission (moderated)
-
- DG> Analogous to soc.feminism, this would be a moderated group for
- DG> posting news and thoughtful analysis of men's issues. Followups
- DG> regularly set to soc.men, alt.dads-rights or soc.feminism.d. I forsee this
- DG> group as one of fairly low traffic.
-
- Good idea! I also agree with your prediction as to the amount of traffic.
-
- Why the name manumission, though? Why not masculinism? Does this term
- have negative connotations, in your opinion?
-
-
- DG> soc.men
-
- DG> Posters would encourage a man-friendly atmosphere and refer
- DG> debates and flames and acrimonious discussion of feminism to
- DG> soc.feminism.d or alt.flame.
-
- Would anyone actually follow such advice?
-
-
- DG> soc.women
-
- DG> Posters would encourage a woman-friendly atmosphere and refer
- DG> debates and flames and acrimonious discussion of feminism to
- DG> soc.feminism.d or alt.flame.
-
- Same concern...
-
-
- DG> talk.abortion
-
- DG> Unchanged from the current talk.abortion (I'm not about to
- DG> tackle this tar baby) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- "I sure don't want to tackle this skin of evil, look what it did to Tasha
- Yar!" :-)
-
-
- DG> talk.choice.men
-
- DG> Replaces alt.abortion.inequity, putting this group on the same
- DG> classification level as talk.abortion. The purpose of this group would
- DG> be to debate reproductive rights for men. This group would substitute
- DG> for the discussion of this topic in soc.men (like talk.abortion and
- DG> talk.rape substitute for the discussion of those issues in soc.women)
- DG> so cross-posting from this group to soc.men would be discouraged.
-
- Actually, I have some concerns about this idea, Dave. Remember that a.a.i.
- isn't entirely about male choice ; for whenever the topic comes up, it is
- about men's feelings about being involved in an unintended pregnancy. (ie.,
- unintended by the woman, not necessarily so by him). Indeed, this was
- originally the reason why I joined a.a.i.
-
- I have a suggestion. If you recall, a few months ago, I was talking about
- creating alt.support.abortion (moderated), but I wondered if there was a
- better place to put it, which wouldn't place it into the alt hierarchy (ie.,
- into soc or some other hierarchy ; if I *did* put it into soc, however, it
- would clash with the existence of alt.support and alt.sexual-abuse.recovery.
-
- Could you offer some advice on how I should handle this? Thanks. (...keeping
- in mind that I have never moderated a newsgroup before, let alone ever
- having *created* one).
-
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