On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:32:20AM -0600, Troy.A Johnson wrote: > >>> uak at nerp.net 10/30/01 09:41AM >>> > >> Hi Guys, > >Any and all, please try to include the females on this list. > > <troll> > To People Of All Sexes, Colors, and Creeds: > > Please don't pick at nits. "Hi Guys" is pretty low on the > old "gender war list o' atrocities". If it really gets under your > skin and you want it to change, I guess I'd be more > appreciative of a snide comment like "I know the answer > to your question, but I'm not a guy, sorry" than an appeal > to my "more inclusive PC" side. But that may be just me. > </troll> Two things: 1) A person could have procmail run a sed/awk/perl search and replace for the offensive phrase on their incoming mail. This enables a person to configure their colored lenses any shade of rose desired. ;) (For that matter, you could set procmail up to tell you only what you want to hear, too!) 2) Using "guys" for all people *is* inclusive, though idiomatic. Why should people be specifically itemized according to their properties? Differentiating is not a good way to promote unity. Whatever. Only one point was Linux related -- I guess that's better than none. -- I used to like HP before computers, and once I even liked Compaq, but I liked DEC better than HP and Compaq put together.