At 09:18 AM 12/11/98 +1000, someone, I don't recall who, wrote: >> 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. Er, the only suggestion I can offer here is the only one that I use for myself personally, when confronted with a gender-specific pronoun used in an impersonal sense. I just don't wrap so much of my self image up in what someone else impersonally used as a pronoun when writing a manual. And I save my anger for those who MEANT to insult me. Tiernan Just A Thought, Meaning No Offense. <0o---<>---o0<Mistress of the Wild Hunt>0o---<>---o0> "The Hands of the Goddess are at the ends of our own wrists." -- Karen Brown <0o---<>---o0< http://www.tirnanoc.org >0o---<>---o0> mhm22x21