** 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