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Yuck !!!!
At 08:44 AM 12/10/1998 -0800, Steve Howie wrote:
>--On Thursday, December 10, 1998, 11:49 AM +0100 "Miroslaw J.
>Wiechowski" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Michael S. Johnson [02:25 10/12/98 -0800]:
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>>> 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.
>>
>> Don't we have more serious problems than discussing various aspects
>> of political correctness?
>>
>
>Exactly - besides, just about every piece of support documentation
>for software I've seen
>in the last couple of years uses 'her' instead of 'him' when citing
>examples of how the
>program is used :)
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