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- From: jce@cs.scarolina.edu (James C. Evans)
- Subject: Re: Crossposting articles with rec.scouting (was Re: BofA and UW ...)
- Message-ID: <jce.715534132@oak.cs.scarolina.edu>
- Sender: usenet@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: USC Department of Computer Science
- References: <jce.714924506@sycamore.cs.scarolina.edu> <1992Aug27.162412.1797@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Aug27.193624.19749@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Sep2.134418.6124@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 15:28:52 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Aug27.193624.19749@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- >kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
- >>
- >> Maybe rec.scouting should be split into several unmoderated
- >> newsgroups.
-
- >I must strongly object. First you (as a group) invade their newsgroup,
- >then rather than buggering off when asked, you propose to *split* it so
- >you can keep posting to it? This is completely inappropriate.
-
- >I have yet to hear someone from rec.scouting actually indicate that
- >they want to read this tripe.
-
- For the record, since my login appears in your cross-reference list,
- I am responding to this by posting.
- I subscribe to rec.scouting only, and did so from day 1.
- I was a pack committee chairperson last year, and later cubmaster.
- Now I've been asked to help organize a boy scout troop associated
- with the pack. While I expect that BSA does not have sufficient
- government entanglements so that it can be prevented from discriminating,
- I'd personally like to see it change its policy to be more open.
- I feel about the same way as I would have, say, 10 years ago in
- an all-male professional social club: not part of the excluded
- group, but generally sympathetic to its concerns (if not always
- to its methods).
-
- People in positions of responsibility in scouting
- will inevitably have to deal with these issues, and it does not hurt
- them to be informed about the arguments on both sides. I'm very
- curious about whether, if this bulletin board splits, whether the
- people who have argued most stridently to boot off the political
- debate will be able to keep from participating in it.
-
- Chris Evans
- jce@ocean.geol.scarolina.edu
-