--On Thursday, December 10, 1998, 11:49 AM +0100 "Miroslaw J.
Wiechowski" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Michael S. Johnson [02:25 10/12/98 -0800]:
>
>> 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 :)