** Sometime around 5:25 -0500 12/10/98, Michael S. Johnson said:

>Maybe it is because it is late at night, but I just noticed that reports
>such as the following show a gender bias.  I don't know the gender of the
>subscriber in question (anonymized for the purpose of this example), so I
>don't know how LISTSERV can make an assumption.

[snip the PC stuff 'cuz it really makes me nauseous]

>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 06:00:05 -0500
>From: "L-Soft list server at Brown University (1.8b)"
>     <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: NAUSICAA: Subscription renewal monitoring report
>
>
>The following 1 subscriber was requested to confirm his subscription to the
>NAUSICAA list:
>
> [log in to unmask]

This is grammatically correct. If there is one subscriber and the gender of
that subscriber is not known, then "he," "she," or "he/she" are all correct
options.

As Miroslaw noted, let's hope that we really do have better things to
discuss than this ...

- Vince