[issues] Re; FAQ Answer request

2000-03-01 Thread Mary Wood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >The friend said several years ago there were a number of > > violent attacks on women at the University of Minnesota. The > police told women they shouldn't go out after dark. And if they > did, to travel either with a man, or in groups of three or m

Re: [issues] FAQ: Answer request

2000-03-01 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to write something in the Issues FAQ about 'trivialising' - such > as people using the word 'rape' to mean other, less intense forms of > injury. Thanks. As someone who has been raped, it's appreciated. > I want to write this because it se

[issues] Re; FAQ: Answer request

2000-03-01 Thread Mary Wood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jenn writes; > I want to write something in the Issues FAQ about 'trivialising' > - such as people using the word 'rape' to mean other, less intense > forms of injury. I trust this FAQ will be carefully worded so as not to imply new 'rules' (as some

Re: [issues] FAQ: Answer request

2000-03-01 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 14:10:20 -0600, coder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >You know, if men were escorted around after dark, think of all the >crimes that would cease. The problem is, who are you going to get to do the escorting? Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [issues] FAQ: Answer request

2000-03-01 Thread coder
Andrew Plumb wrote: > > And a women's group on campus wrote a letter to the editor saying that > women hadn't done anything wrong. Maybe *men* should be escorted in large > groups around campus... > You know, if men were escorted around after dark, think of all the crimes that would cease. I

Re: [issues] FAQ: Answer request

2000-03-01 Thread Andrew Plumb
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [deletia] > Would people who truly understand how it hurts when something is trivialised > do me a great favour and either discuss this on the list, or email me > privately? Hi Jenn, On a similar train of thought, an intriguing idea popped up in a sem

Re: [issues]

2000-03-01 Thread S. D. Rosenberg
"S. D. Rosenberg" wrote: bugger. don't you just *hate* it when you pick the wrong field in netscape mail? grr. damn gui mail clients. please _ignore_ that; it was supposed to be _private_. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

[issues] jenn@simegen.com

2000-03-01 Thread S. D. Rosenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I want to write something in the Issues FAQ about 'trivialising' - such > as people using the word 'rape' to mean other, less intense forms of > injury. Thank you. That episode was really, *really* sickening/hurtful/nauseating, and I'm glad someone is _doing_ somethi

[issues] FAQ: Answer request

2000-03-01 Thread jenn
I want to write something in the Issues FAQ about 'trivialising' - such as people using the word 'rape' to mean other, less intense forms of injury. I want to write this because it seems to be important to others in this forum - but (probably because I've had a lucky and relatively safe life)

Re: [issues] UCITA info (was: Free FrameMaker beta for Linux)

2000-03-01 Thread Sascha Brawer
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000, KU4QD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >For Adobe, [UCITA] means .pdf, a proprietary format, could only be >offered by Adobe. This might be off-topic -- but I feel the urge to save Adobe's reputation here. The PDF specification, which is freely downloadable from the Adobe websit