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: > >> 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 :)