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On Sun, 09 Aug 1998 22:17:08 -0400, Regina Litman
<rslitman@philly.infi.net> wrote:

>I guess you're one of those people that automatically thinks that anyone
>buying computer problems has just got to be of the male sex.  Go back
>and read the original message.  It was posted by a "she".  Hope I
>succeeded in raising your conscience.

  No, I'm not one of those people that thinks only persons of the male
gender have computer issues. I got thrown off by the fact that both
their names were at the top of the message, although I did notice
later in the thread that she was the one who actually posted (I don't
normally pay a whole lot of attention to .sigs).
  It's a regrettable fact that the masculine generic is still very
common in our language (although it's thankfully waning) and that gets
compounded by the fact that a disproportionate number of net users
(especially in the computer ng's) are men (also on the decline). But I
certainly didn't intend to propogate either of those tendencies, and I
apologize if I offended you by inadvertantly doing so.

Frank Garcia
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