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- From: wvs@cancer.DIALix.oz.au (W.V. Sharpe (Ore Reserve Geologist LNO))
- Subject: Re: Someone in Sun Prod mgmt please read
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.044027.994@cancer.DIALix.oz.au>
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- Organization: Western Mining Corp.
- References: <1992Aug13.115602.29015@nntp.nta.no>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 04:40:27 GMT
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- In article 29015@nntp.nta.no, styri@hal.nta.no (Haakon Styri) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug12.231903.20168@afterlife.ncsc.mil>, David P. Kemp writes:
- >>
- >> Sun must also remove the ABRT signal, since it is guaranteed to cause hard
- >> feelings all around. They thought they were being clever, leaving out
- >> a vowel, but we all know it means ABORT!
- >
- >Guess David didn't find the smiley-keys on the keyboard...
- >
- >I agree that naming concepts should be done with great care, avoiding
- >potentially loaded (or overloaded) words. (I wouldn't call `abort'
- >overloaded, it's only got two interpretations in my dictionary...)
- >One of the nice things with english is that it's a rich language in
- >terms of words.
- >
- >However, if we should avoid all words that may offend some group of
- >people in all english-speaking countries we're going to have a hard
- >time. (Are australians offended by logging in as the UNIX super-user?)
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- Not Really. But it's a worry when female administrators think it's an order!
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- >
- >---
- >Haakon Styri
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- ,-_|\ Tim Shaw
- / \ MIS Contracto
- *_,-._/ Currently @ Western Mining Corporation (Definitely not speaking for them )
- v tim@cancer.dialix.oz.au
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