[56745] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Put part of Google on 69/8 (was Re: 69/8...this [degenerate linguistic usage elided)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr. Jeffrey Race)
Thu Mar 13 03:53:11 2003
From: "Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net>
To: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 15:50:22 +0700
Reply-To: "Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:58:50 -0500, Vivien M. wrote:
>I wonder if perhaps a solution would be doing something I saw a gentleman
>from China, IIRC, do on this list quite a while ago. He had added (Mr.)
to
>his .sig to make it easy for people to figure out his gender. Perhaps
this
>would be an easyish way to somewhat-subtly warn people of the correct
>gender?
Female personal-status-specific honorifics (Miss, Mrs.) used
to be essential elements of any signature block, at least for written
correspondence, in the days when persons honored one another. Lack
of such an honorific implied not female. Now it's just 'Hi $first_name'.
I'm glad I'm on the way out.
Jeffrey Race
