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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!manuel!coombs!avalon
- From: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
- Subject: Re: "Gender Flags" -- for lack of a better term.
- Message-ID: <avalon.714805955@coombs>
- Lines: 35
- Sender: news@newshost.anu.edu.au
- Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
- References: <9208260030.AA14936@moeng2.morgan.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 05:12:35 GMT
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- demi@MOENG2.MORGAN.EDU (Demi Greene) writes:
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- >I wasn't sure exactly where I should go with ideas for IRC, but this
- >seemed as good a place as any to start. So, here's my proposal.
-
- >Does anyone like the idea of a 'gender flag' to show up in the 'S' part
- >of a /who listing? For example:
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- >/gender female
- > and
- >/gender male
- >would produce 'F' or 'M' -->
-
- >Channel Nickname S User@Host (Name)
- >#example saltgirl H@F saltgirl@rever.NMSU.Edu (That one girl)
- >#example demi H@F demi@moeng2.morgan.edu (Demi Greene)
- >#example Thomas @*M jkf677@netcom.COM.edu (!id Thomas the Great)
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-
- >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?
-
- Seems useless for bots. And what does it really do ? make it easier
- for ppl to target others when you want to chat up someone on irc ?
- No thanks. Females on IRC already get enough harrasment, lets not make
- it any easier.
-
- btw, your example is misleading i think unless there really is a 2:1
- female to male ratio :-)
-
- avalon
-