[Techtalk] Over-zealous spam filtering/ a constructive suggestion

[Carla Schroder]

I'd like to make a suggestion.

A lot of energy has been expended on this discussion. Some points have made 
several times. You know what I would like to see? Some of that energy 
expended where it can do some real good.

http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-09-21-009-26-OS-CY
 HOWTO Encourage Women in Linux

Vals' HOWTO is the second-most-read story for the day. Hurray! The majority 
of the comments are from men, many of them negative. They are entitled to 
their opinions- I would like to see more supportive posts. It takes a couple 
minutes to post, no registration required.

Posting in public forums matters. People read and think about them. They live 
on forever in Google. For this particular issue, having a lot of people 
posting saying "Good document, well done, thank you" is powerful. "Me too" 
posts are good. As one poster commented, if women don't appear to care, why 
should anyone care?

At the very least we should support each other, taking a minute to post in a 
forum doesn't require much effort! Yet the potential benefit is large. There 
is lots of griping on 'Chix lists about the unfairness and inequities in 
high-tech- this is dandy way to do something about it.

Any women who post, please sign with a woman's name! 

This is my official retirement from non-technical issues on Techtalk. This is 
important enough that I felt one more OT post was warranted.

cheers,
Carla
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