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- From: dman@netcom.com (Dallman Ross)
- Subject: Re: WELL anonymity policy
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.032925.27653@netcom.com>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 03:29:25 GMT
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- Steve Pope (spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu) wrote:
- : I do not think the WELL's policies are off limits
- : for discussion just because their subscribers are
- : all happy. If you lobotomized all 12-year-olds then
- : the high schools would be full of kids who are
- : happy. Does that make lobotimization good policy?
-
- Very virtuous, that you have elected yourself the savior of all
- WELLperns. It's a joke to think they are all placid on *any* issue that
- could possibly be imagined, however; much less, lobotomized.
-
- The "policy" conference on The WELL, where this type of issue would be
- discussed, is one of the most rife (and interesting) places of
- contention on the entire system. People are not afraid to discuss
- issues or complacent about them. Again, I'm just not sure what you
- think The WELL's management could do in this regard that would somehow
- be "better."
-
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