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- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.psycgrad
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:23:59 EST
- Sender: Psychology Graduate Students Discussion Group List
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- From: Matthew Simpson <054340@UOTTAWA.BITNET>
- Subject: RE: CowPlop Fans
- In-Reply-To: Message of Wed,
- 27 Jan 1993 12:27:01 EST from <PCABE@PEMBVAX1.PEMBROKE.EDU>
- Lines: 60
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- On Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:27:01 EST <PCABE@PEMBVAX1.PEMBROKE.EDU> said:
- >Cowboys? Bills? 49'ers? Graduate school? Graduate students? (Is this
- >network worth spending my time on?)
-
- In general, the best way to combat this, is to mail the person directly.
- However, not wanting to re-type this long letter to the many cow-ploppers,
- I'm sending this one here. If you need to request people to change the
- nature of their e-mail postings, please send the person direct. If we all
- do this, the offenders will get the message (and many more).
-
- I have to agree with the tone of this author. Lately there has been
- a plethora of one-liner type playschool chit chat on PSYCGRAD. You
- people know who you are. The thing with one-liners is that the
- writet is not exercising any consideration of others. They just want
- to talk and hear themselves talk.
-
- Sure it's easy to hit the delete key on these items of mail, right?
- However, some people have to pay money for each and every line of e-mail
- they receive, especially if the reader is in Eastern European Countries
- like Poland. Censorship for the sake of saving a few dollars is not
- worth it, I agree. But when the message is nothing concretely linked
- to the interests of the group as a whole, it has to be questioned, or
- at least resented by the majority.
-
- Please recognize this. With a group as large as this (over 530) we could
- find all sorts of topics that only, let's say, 5% of us could find fun
- to chit chat about. Yet these topics may not be relevant at all to being
- a graduate student of psychology (eg. sports, cooking, knitting, cars,
- bingo, toe-nail clipping, etc). There would always be at least 5% of
- use that would have fun chatting about these topics. However, the
- topics would not be implicitly relevant to being a graduate student in
- psychology. These topics are generally resented.
-
- Admittedly, a topic like magnetic resonance imagery might not be relevant
- to 99% of the people on The PSYCGRAD Project. However, I believe that
- because a topic like that is associated with neurpsychology, 99% of the
- people from developmental to social to cognitive to sleep research to
- human sexuality (etc) will not resent that topic being brought through
- PSYCGRAD. One of the biggest reason why they don't is because PSYCGRAD
- is one of the only lists that people could talk about that. But there are
- other appropriate places for chit chat about sports!
-
- Network-wide ID Full address List title
- --------------- ------------ ----------
- AUTOS-L AUTOS-L@TRITU The List For Classic And Sports Cars
- PBP-L PBP-L@ETSUADMN Play-by-Play Sportscasters list
- SPORTMGT SPORTMGT@UNBVM1 Sport Management
- SPORTPC SPORTPC@UNBVM1 Use of computers in sport
- SPORTPSY SPORTPSY@TEMPLEVM Exercise and Sports Psychology
- STATLG-L STATLG-L@BROWNVM Baseball (and Lesser Sports) Discussion List
-
- Those of you doing the football chit chat, please respect the intention of
- PSYCGRAD. No, we can't make you do this. But we can request that you do.
-
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