emks@uokvax.UUCP (10/24/84)
Then give me the opportunity to differ with you. I will concede in advance that abortion is a very important political issue and is in many citizens' minds. Will you also make a concession? Will you agree that many readers wish to deal with other matters in net.politics? I'm only one small voice, but I don't care to read anything about abortion. The argument's been waged for years, my mind is "made up," and I don't wish to spend time dwelling on a de jure matter about which I don't really care. It's for these typical reasons that a separate newsgroup, called net.abortion, was formed. It wasn't formed to talk about abortion experiences (i.e. helpline style) or about how to perform an abortion. Instead, it was formed to remove discussions of abortions to one central repository for further comment. Until the newsgroup was formed, news articles about the political implications of abortion were spread throughout the growing population of newsgroups, thus making rebuttal and comment difficult. In addition, some of us were "turned off" by the topic and failed to read further news from that newsgroup. One of the unfortunate disadvantages [of having a separate group] is that there's a tendency to become irritated if one of the collateral points of a news article mentions or deals specifically with abortion, many will write "nastygrams" to the author asking him to "take it to net.abortion." I don't believe this is proper, but the article to which I believe we are referring deals primarily with abortion issues. My views are unchanged in this matter. kurt
rdz@ccice5.UUCP (Robert D. Zarcone) (11/08/84)
> Then give me the opportunity to differ with you. I will concede in advance > that abortion is a very important political issue and is in many citizens' > minds. > > Will you also make a concession? Will you agree that many readers wish to > deal with other matters in net.politics? I'm only one small voice, but I > don't care to read anything about abortion. The argument's been waged > for years, my mind is "made up," and I don't wish to spend time dwelling > on a de jure matter about which I don't really care. > > > My views are unchanged in this matter. > > kurt Well, mine are. How's that for a first on the net? I've abandoned net.abortion in the realization that nobody over their wants to discuss, they only want to rant. I'll keep the subject off these air-waves, unless there is legislation pending or something like that. See people? There can be agreement when people decide to agree. *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***