I have  decided to  put the  "Dear sir" issue  on a  vote. Apart  from June's
hysterical complaint, which I completely ignored (all the more so as the repla-
cement greeting she suggested, 'Dear  BITNETter', would most probably make ARPA
fans *very* angry --  I know at least one ARPA guy who  *hates* BITNET), a res-
pectable number of  *sensible* persons have presented a request  for that gree-
ting to be  changed. I contemplated defining a global  variable, 'GREETING', in
LSV$PROF and  changing the  MAILFORM file  to "'greeting',",  but I  think it's
cheating :-)
 
  So let's put it on a vote. PLEASE VOTE VIA PRIVATE MAIL. Any vote sent to the
list will be void :-) I suggest the following possibilities:
 
(1) Keep 'Dear sir', and to the hell with'em!! ;-)
(2) Use 'Dear sir or dear madam' (suggested by Jenny)
(2bis) Same as (2), but IBM-ed: 'Dear  Sir Or Dear Madam' (oops, c/Or/or/ :-) )
(3) 'Dear User'  (a suggestion from David  Bolen) -- Note: this  one would make
     *me* angry. Sounds like 'Dear End User' to my hears...
(4) 'Dear Networker' (from myself)
(4bis) 'Dear Network fan' (from myself too -- actually I'm hesitating)
(5) 'Dear person' (don't remember who suggested this one)
(6) 'Hello' (don't remember either)
(7) 'IAT8187 JOB 4531,NEWUSER  PR=15  CL=S AWAITING GREETING(P)' (hee hee)
 
(8) other?
 
  Please vote within a reasonable delay...
 
Eric