Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 14:59:51 -0500 From: Sassinak <sassinak@jfkadatc.net> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>, David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (OT) Re: NSFBUFS in kernel config Message-ID: <5.0.1.4.1.20001204145421.009ea170@204.211.2.201> In-Reply-To: <3A2BEE31.F2338829@math.missouri.edu> References: <5.0.1.4.1.20001204135928.009f44a0@204.211.2.201> <20001204190650.A27319@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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At 01:19 PM 12/4/00 -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: >David Malone wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 02:00:15PM -0500, Sassinak wrote: > > > At 11:23 PM 12/3/00 +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > > > >Dear Sirs. > > > > *I* am NOT a Sir. > > > I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one. > > > I'm sure it's just someone, who's first language isn't English, > > trying to be polite. Politeness is valuable in this world. > >Yes, in certain parts of America people often address other people >(especially strangers) at Sir or Ma'am. As an Englishman living >in Missouri, I have even adopted it myself. Okay, my apologies, I didn't mean to start an argument. It's just that it doesn't seem to matter what group of (dare I say) geeks I am in... I get looked at like a piece of fluff (read: arm candy). There are still a lot of assumptions about women and computers and it sorta... hrm... pokes an exposed button when people address a things with Dear Sirs. Unless and until we adopt Star Trek as our naming model... I would just appreciate something a lil less gender specific... but that's just me :) With that said... I think it's time this one went off list before I/we get flamed for not talking about FreeBSD-stable <grin> Back to work Sassinak aka Angela :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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