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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: him/her: was: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/01/31 Message-ID: <792cv9$b54$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 439095413 References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369CBD05.79D0@telusplanet.net> <369CBDA8.D3673C68@pwfl.com> <78j0jo$705@enquirer.corp.adobe.com> <36AF19D8.9776B2D1@snet.net> <36AF6C8C.C0EE74E@roadrunner.com> <36B0A237.EDAB57DE@pwfl.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x15.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 166.72.82.22 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Sun Jan 31 20:03:58 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-01-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I always groan when I see mail heavily cross-posted to comp.lang.ada and other language groups, because the other groups seem even worse than cla in terms of newbies who are obvivious to what they are doing. This thread on how to deal with the s/he situation has been massively cross-posted to: comp.lang.ada, comp.lang.c++, comp.vxworks, comp.lang.java, comp.java.advocacy, comp.realtime, comp.arch.embedded, comp.object, comp.lang.java.programmer I would bet that most of the posters don't even know what cross-posting *is*, let alone bothered to check. Certainly they did not bother to trim groups. If you cannot stop yourself following up irrelevant threads, then at the very least change the subject line so that (a) those following the relevant thread do not have to put up with irrelevant nonsense. (b) people can easily kill the subthread and its followups Please don't pollute technical newsgroups with non-technical irrelevant nonsense. (note that I am not saying the material here is nonsense in general, perhaps there is a group where it is relevant, but it is irrelevant nonsense in technical language groups!) In article , ruthc@sharra.demove.demon.co.uk wrote: > In article <36B0A237.EDAB57DE@pwfl.com>, condicma@bogon.pwfl.com says... > > Jay O'Connor wrote: > > > > > > > him / her = hes > > > > she / he = se > > > > > > > > Problem solved. > > > > > > No... > > > > > > him / her = im/er > > > > > > she / he = s/1 = s > > > > > I prefer the solution used by several large companies: alternate using he > and she, or Jack and Jill if using names, for each significant chunk > (chapter, paragraph -- whatever workd). It seems odd at first but it > reads quite well. > > I do get irritated by books that use male names thougout, though. > > Ruth > > -- > > Ruth Ivimey-Cook > Cambridge, UK > -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own