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In article <Cn4J5v.I5M@tfs.com>, Jeff Bowles <jab@tfs.com> wrote:
>
>	There is this article that's been cross-posted to
>		alt.transgendered
>		soc.women
>		alt.feminism
>		soc.motss
>		ba.motss
>		soc.bi
>	that's about the nature of women and what that has to do with
>	transgender'ed individuals.
>
>	This crossposting creates traffic on many newsgroups it shouldn't.
>	(One article went as far as asking "what's motss?". It's the gay
>	newsgroup designator, and you should deduce that ba.motss and soc.motss
>	shouldn't get crosspostings of this string!)
>
>	Please edit your "Newsgroups:" line to only include "alt.transgendered".
>
>	Jeff Bowles (who thinks the string is interesting, but doesn't wanna
>		    see the articles across six newsgroups!)
---
	First, you shouldn't see the articles across 6 newsgroups.
Articles that are cross-posted should only be viewed, by default,
1 time.  You read it once, and it is marked read in all the newsgroups.
There is only 1 copy of the article in a cross posted article.

	If your news reader doesn't handle this properly, it is broken.

	Second, rejection, that I have noticed, comes from people in the
feminist and lesbian communities.  The Ecstacy Club in SF is a
lesbian sex club that has had policies of women born women only.  Last
time I check, there was no soc.lesbian or ba.lesbian and thought
motss referred to both lesbians and gays.  

	I have never heard of any men's groups or gay clubs allowing
only men-born-men, so this topic isn't really a 'gay' or a 'mens' issue.
If you believe soc.motss only to be for 'gays' and not lesbians, I
can see why you might find this topic inappropriate -- however, I
don't believe motss has such a limitation in scope.

	The noticing of "who" has or is doing such discrimination or
might have knowledge relating to it is the reasoning used for the
other newsgroups.

	Look at it this way.  Go back to the 1950's.  A group of blacks
wants to know why some white people hate or discriminate against them.
Would it be logical for those in the group to only ask the question
among themselves or to ask someone in the "other" group who might
have a clue?

william


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