-=> On 21 Mar 95  22:52:16 Pierre Vandevenne said to Andrew Grillet <=-


 > Restricted to DAP members. I believe DAP membership is not
 > *quite* open to all. It would have a smaller flow, and would
 > be a slightly more private place to discuss DAP specific
 > issues.

 PV> And why not to white DAP members ?
 PV> And why not to clever white DAP members ?
 PV> And why not to rich clever white DAP members ?

 PV> I even have a name for the new area : DAPartheid.
I am perfectly happy for you to run an echo of that nature on your BBS, but
I won't bother joining it.

 PV> Seriously, I think that if you want a conference to be "not quite open
 PV> to all", your goal should be to raise the quality of the posts not to
 PV> forbid anyone from posting.
There is already OS2PROG as an 'open to all'. I imagine that most DAP
members would continue to read it too.

However, DAP membership is a specific group of people, with specific
topics of common relevance.  I can see no reason why there should not
be an echo on *MY* BBS specific to this group. Others MAY wish to do
this too.

I would love to know how you can improve the quality of postings in
any echo, but I won't be holding my breath.

Being able to choose echos of restricted coverage means that people with
limited time at their disposal can concentrate on the subjects that are
of most interest to them.

You are under no obligation to read the DAP echo. If the DAP program is
not useful to you, then the echo probably won't be, but, OTOH, it might
be a place where you can explain why the DAP prgram is no use to you, with
the (remote) chance that the DAP program might be altered to benefit you more.

OTOH, you might be a biggoted moron with a narrow mind committed to flaming
people with good intentions, and no intrinsic merit whatever. If so, please
try to benefit mankind by expalining to feminists that 'women only' functions
are rabidly sexist and grossly offensive to men. I don't have the strength :-)

Happy netting

Andrew




 
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