FW: [Techtalk] Over-zealous spam filtering/ a constructive sugges tion

Charlotte Oliver COliver at casedesign.com
Mon Sep 23 13:11:16 EST 2002


Erm, ON-list this time.

Sorry Carla! :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Charlotte Oliver 
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 1:11 PM
To: 'carla at bratgrrl.com'
Subject: RE: [Techtalk] Over-zealous spam filtering/ a constructive
suggestion


<<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.>>


I went and posted this morning - and raged a bit at some of the
blind-sided comments. There are many "Well, my mom/aunt/sister/wife use
linux, so I don't think this article is needed" posts there. I think we
can come up with some intelligent responses stating that just because
they know ONE woman who uses linux doesn't mean that there isn't any
sexism/unfairness in the linux community.

Charlotte



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