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- From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
- Subject: Re: "Gender Flags" -- for lack of a better term.
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- References: <9208260030.AA14936@moeng2.morgan.edu>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 03:21:34 GMT
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- In article <9208260030.AA14936@moeng2.morgan.edu> demi@MOENG2.MORGAN.EDU (Demi Greene) writes:
- >
- >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?
-
- I don't see any disadvantage, because many people pick gender-specific names
- already. The examples you used (demi, saltgirl, thomas) are fairly obvious.
- For people who would like to remain unknown, they can simply not set the
- flag (have a default state of " "). Those who are really paranoid can always
- mode -i.
-
- So I do think it's a good idea, as long as there is a default option of
- "unknown".
-
- (Flames from Steve Franklin will be, of course, ignored. All other followups
- welcome.)
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