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- From: franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin)
- Subject: Re: "Gender Flags" -- for lack of a better term.
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 00:20:46 GMT
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- In <BtnqKz.6tA@news.cso.uiuc.edu> dmd39855@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Daniel M. DuBois) writes:
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- >How many of you guys greet other guys with: "hugz!" ?
-
- Yeah, but don't you feel like a bit of a turd typing "hugz" to some
- female you've never seen before either? Honestly folks, irc is a bit
- much, but this "gender flag" concept has reallllly brought it out in
- the open.
- The way I see it, the same fool who wants the gender flag wants to
- be able to do a
- /who *female* so that he can annoy each and every one of the females trying
- to pick up an 'ASCII-date'... Seems to me that irc is already becoming a
- hunk-o'-dung as #hotsex is the most populated channel...
- come on
- steve
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