[net.women] net.people: two very distinct meanings have been proposed

ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader) (01/18/84)

utcsrgv!peterr (Peter Rowley) and others have suggested from time to
time that net.women be renamed, and one name that recurs in this context
is net.people.  However, net.people has also been suggested as the name
for a proposed group for personal announcements, i.e., changes of net
address, leaving the net, and so on.

I think that since net.women deals primarily with relationships and
attitudes of men and women about each other, a better name change would
be to net.sexes.  I would not support any other proposed change.  In view
of our (unfortunately) existing male-oriented society, the existing name
does in fact convey something of this idea anyway, so the change is mainly
of desexistifying importance (to coin a word).

I like the second net.people idea; there are people whose netstuff I enjoy
reading, and I would like to keep track of them.  I suppose that if the
name is really wanted for other purposes, net.netters would do instead.

Mark Brader