weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) (06/14/88)
In article <56436@sun.uucp>, chuq@plaid (Chuq Von Rospach) writes about a last-minute filibuster against comp.women by Rick Adams and Greg Woods. I don't know how much of this to believe. In private e-mail to me, Greg said he'd go along with the final vote, along with some other stuff that makes all of the above exceedingly hard to believe. I will forward this particular e-mail to the backbone mail- ing list, unless Greg claims that the above assertions of Chuq's are so much stuff and nonsense. I wouldn't know about Rick. He has never backed up his bald assertion that all his comp.all,!soc.* neighbors will refuse comp.women. Belief is more important than evidence sometimes. I guess. Sigh. >This sucks. Yes. > I also suggest heavily that in the future, backbone policy >decisions be done in public, where the are at least minimally accountable. How about a moderated news.backbone, as a gateway to the mailing list? Hell, why doesn't Gene just newgroup comp.women, so we'll all just *SEE* who issues a rmgroup, and who listens to whom already, instead of these constant proofs by speaking very loudly that all of us have engaged in? It should be bloody good fun. Speaking for the soft underbelly of the net, ucbvax!garnet!weemba Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720