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- From: lora@popcbr.rockefeller.edu (Lora Frisch)
- Newsgroups: bionet.women-in-bio
- Subject: Women and Computers
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.235521.5083@rockyd.rockefeller.edu.rockefeller.edu>
- Originator: lora@popcbr.rockefeller.edu
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- Organization: Population Council, New York
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 23:55:20 EST
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- buzz@wccf.mit.edu says:
- > Why am I reading and writing to this network? Well, I am interested and
- > active in many areas of women's issues, and I must admit that I often prefer
- > interactions over the computer because my comfort level around living,
- > breathing, unpredictable other folks is not as great as I might like. So I
- > type away, responding and communicating in a forum that is (to me) interesting
- > and also relatively nonthreatening.
- >
- > Other women out there, why do you read and post? Do any of you have ideas
- > about how to increase female participation?
- >
- > Buzz (yes, I'm female. names don't always give it away)
- >
- >
- I would describe myself as buzz did in her first paragraph. One thing I
- have noticed about public women's discussion groups is that men
- tend to clog the threads with their interests. Notably abortion.
- I read some of the biology discussion groups because I am a sys admin
- working for the Center for Biomedical Research of The Population Council.
- I used to subscribe to the Pascal discussion group but I got tired of
- all the people asking others to do their Pascal programming homework.
- I read all the Sun discussions because that relates to my work.
- I read the chess news because I play chess. I read the Microsoft
- discussions because I have a home computer. I subscribe to the
- Visual Basic group.
- I log onto several BBS in the NYC area for chitchat on computers,
- movies, current events. I try to participate in women's discussion
- group on a BBS but as I indicated above the men tend to fill it with
- their blabber.
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- lora@popcbr.rockefeller.edu
- Unix Systems Administrator
- The Population Council
- Center for Biomedical Research
-