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- From: petrilli@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chris Petrilli)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: "Gender Flags" -- for lack of a better term.
- Summary: Freeping Creaturism
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.032326.17245@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 03:23:26 GMT
- References: <9208260030.AA14936@moeng2.morgan.edu>
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- In article <9208260030.AA14936@moeng2.morgan.edu> demi@MOENG2.MORGAN.EDU (Demi Greene) writes:
-
- >Does anyone like the idea of a 'gender flag' to show up in the 'S' part
- >of a /who listing? For example:
-
- I really wonder of what use this would really be. I mean I guess
- depending on where you ``activities'' on IRC ran, it might be useful,
- but in most of my dealings on IRC, I don't really care what gender
- someone is. But then again, I don't engage in a lot of the less
- ``virtuous'' activities. :-)
-
- >Of course, people would take extreme advantage of this, and pretend to
- >be the opposite gender, etc, but it seems like a useful and fun
- >feature regardless. Thoughts?
-
- Well, people already pretend to be the opposite gender, it's
- relatively common, heck I even get accused of being female by some
- people somtimes, and I'm not trying to confuse anyone! I don't think
- that the flag belongs in the general IRC code. Perhaps making an
- extension to NickServ to support this, or a GenderSrv, or something
- like that, but it DEFINATELY doesn't belong in the IRC code, which is
- already bloated and hulking and nearing a critical mass.
-
- Chris Petrilli (Crowley)
-
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- | Chris Petrilli ____
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