Hitler was really Austrian. phil at rephil.org wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list