From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 108793,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid108793,public X-Google-Thread: fb3cb,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb3cb,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f973d,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gidf973d,public X-Google-Thread: 115d3b,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid115d3b,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public From: Edward Hill Subject: Re: Partners Wanted Date: 1999/07/13 Message-ID: <378B2D6E.41A62A2C@nochance.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 500486737 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <37852976.F8027C86@home.com> <7m4dut$r3i$1@news.cybercity.dk> <3785F6D1.3BE9@cacd.rockwell.com> <378c3a1e.594832624@news.bctel.ca> <378A1146.3810776F@ic.ac.uk> <378a1d89.31805403@news.mistral.co.uk> <378B28DE.E5655351@ic.ac.uk> <378B2996.CCC1B9FD@ic.ac.uk> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: GEC-Marconi Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.java.security,comp.lang.javascript,comp.lang.delphi,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,alt.lang.delphi Date: 1999-07-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Sunil Rao wrote: : : Sunil Rao wrote: : > : > Jim wrote: : > > But UK stats show young girls are more likely to be online than young : > > men (under 18's.) : > : > Looking up pictures of their favourite boy band. Doesn't necessarily : > mean they'll go into the field, they know they need to know how to use a : > comp even to get a secretarial job. Pure pragmatism, no interest. :) : : Before I get roundly flamed, of course I'm stereotyping here. Just : making the point that simply because more of them use computers doesn't : mean that more of them are actually curious about how they work. This is : seriously offtopic for comp.lang.c so I'll shut up. Of course there will be a surprising lack of delay while your first message races round all the news servers, whereas the second will be myteriosly delayed, and the flames will come. Ed