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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: Is sachz male or female ?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.093803.21920@aston.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 09:38:03 GMT
- References: <1992Aug20.143643.17954@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- andrewb@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Bucknell) writes:
- : Well. Sachz seems to think this file is a 'classic'. But then sachz has
- : a weird sense of humor. Judge for yourself. I am posting this at
- : his request cause he seems to think you will all get a kick out of it.
- :
- : Basically what happened here is I got suckered in to beliveing Mr Sachz
- : was a girl. I hope you all find it as amusing as sachz and freddie and
- : various others have :)
-
- Look so long as they choose one gender and stick to it throughout a session
- then what is the problem?
-
- If they keep changing their gender every few minutes then they are just being
- a jerk use the ignore command (or moan at your client coder if it isn't fitted)
-
- There is no way you can tell what gender someone on IRC really is, unless
- you are in the same room as them.
-
- Go look up the original version of 'Turing test'.
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