From: NCCUT132@TWNMOE10.BITNET (Brian David Phillips)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asian.american
Subject: Kill Files 'n Stuff
Date: 19 Aug 92 00:04:29 GMT

Due to that nefarious state, USENet Lag, I don't get to keep quite
up-to-the-minute on postings . . .

For instance, today I finally got some of the posts dated in and around
the seventh and eigth - - it varies from group to group as well as
according to originating sites.

Evidently some people out there in NET-Land will disregard the fact that
quite a few people reading the NET are not in the continental U.S.A.
Some posts never make it around to this site (for instance, I know that
one person flamed me pretty royalle - - or so he tells me via E-Mail, but
I have yet to see the posts at this site).

Okay, here's my beef:

Today, reading the group, I came across a "new" post regarding "Kill
Files."  Normally, I skip posts with "Kill" in the subject line, but
today I thought I'd give it a read anyway.  It seems that Jeong-Gyun
Shin decided to teach people how to set their computers up for not
receiving mail from certain individuals.

Lo and behold . . . and imagine my surprise . . . upon reading the piece
I find my E-Mail address and name right there in the list of "example"
kills.  Huhnn?????

I don't know this guy and only minor clues as to why he would want to
broadcast my name to the World as an undesirable element.  I will certainly
E-Mail this post along with a question as to why to him, but as he's put
me on his "Kill List" I doubt if he gets the mail or that he sees this
post - - hopefully someone will forward a copy to him so he knows I'd like
at least an idea or something . . .

I've only posted twice to this group (so I don't see how I can qualify
for major Net annoyance or whatever he said . . . I didn't copy the file
for posterity, sorry).  My second post was just a quickie apology for
misinterpreting another posters "pun" for racism.

It must have been my first post which has him so hot under the collar.
My problem is that I honestly don't know what about the post has him so
upset that he's willing to go to the trouble of trying to lock out my
postings - - on my system, we have the option of NOT reading posts by
people whose stuff we don't want to see.

I did receive one e-mail from a guy who told me not to post such smutty
trash anymore -- his right.  Another person said, "Don't you ever dare
to try to post anything again, or else!"  Whoa!  One woman told me she's
a woman and Jewish and was very offended by my post - - so now I'm anti-
semetic as well as a corruptor of Asian women (who another person called
"sluts and whores" for bothering to even date white men).

Granted, my original post was a bit frank about sexuality - - but I certainly
wasn't trying to write erotica, smut, or pornography (despite some of the
responses I've seemed to have generated).  If you disagree with my level of
candor, that's one thing.  The ideas?  That's another.  Disagreement is
fine.  That's what the NET is for.

I do have a problem with some of the respondents to my original post:
PLEASE READ THE POSTS before FLAMING.

I was NOT trying to give the impression that:

          Asian women are sexually more promiscuous than Whites.
          Whites or Asians are superiorandorinferior.
          The world is Flat.

If those are your beliefs . . . fine . . . keep 'em, I disagree.  What I
was trying to object to was simple racism - - albeit in a long and
winding manner.  I was also trying to shed a little light on the cross-
cultural and/or inter-racial dating issues based upon my own experiences.

Beef Two:

If you're going to flame someone on the NET, I for one would suggest at
least e-mailing a copy of the flame to the person out of courtesy.  Netlag
is real people.  It takes awhile for posts from the States to make it to
my reader . . . I assume others are in the same boat.  If you do this,
it gives people a chance to respond within reasonable time (as much as the
NET allows, that is).

Remember . . . there are people at the other end of the terminal.

Just a thought or two.  Of course, only some of the more worthy get to
read this . . . those in whose "Kill File" I do not reside.

  Brian David Phillips
  Meiguo Langren Zai Taibei           NCCUT132@TWNMOE10.BITNET
  {An American Werewolf in Taipei}    NCCUT132@TWNMOE10.EDU.TW
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asian.american