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. Unfortunately, replacing "his" with "his/her" is a simple, but incomplete solution because it doesn't take reflectors, gateways, or group/role accounts (helpdesk, postmaster, root) into account. At the risk of sounding impersonal, "his" could be replaced with "its/their" (singular/plural). Or how about "The following 1 subscriber was asked for confirmation of subscription to the NAUSICAA list." It is too bad that English doesn't have a gender-neutral pronoun that can be used for people, in the way that the German "man" is used. Just a thought. -- Michael S. Johnson Miyazaki Web and Mailing List Owner [log in to unmask] www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/mailing-list ---------- 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]