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Subject: Re: Off Topic: Poll suggestion: Ages here

Author: Alvaro Rodriguez

Date: 12:36:32 01/26/00

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On January 26, 2000 at 13:49:04, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 26, 2000 at 13:08:18, Bo Persson wrote:
>
>>On January 26, 2000 at 07:58:44, Tina Long wrote:
>>
>>>Hi guys,
>>>I've just been reading the election threads, and there seems to be a general
>>>presumption that the members here are young adults, or adults.
>>>
>>>eg "look after your own affairs" "learn to deal with it".
>>>
>>>That's fine by me by the way.
>>>
>>>Meanwhile, if this place was here when I was 12 years old I'd be reading every
>>>post.
>>>
>>
>>Sometimes it's good not to know! A couple of year ago I had a long discussion on
>>a C programming list, where it turned out that the other two guys were 12 years
>>old (at least that what they said to each other "... I'm 12 too").
>>
>>Very surprising to me, 30 years older at the time.
>>
>>
>>Bo Persson
>>bop@malmo.mail.telia.com
>
>
>this is a common problem...  young kids like to pretend to be adults, and they
>can pull it off convincingly sometimes, due to the anonymous nature of internet
>communication.  It eventually shows up however, if you watch how they write,
>how they react, etc.  :)

I´m only 17 but I haven´t caused any problems yet. Well maybe because I don´t
post often, maybe some posts per week :-)
I will continue to post few messages because maybe I offend someone.. :-)

Alvaro



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