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- From: gseidman@umbc4.umbc.edu (Jack of Shadows)
- Subject: Re: "Gender Flags" -- for lack of a better term.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.140231.11357@umbc3.umbc.edu>
- Keywords: gender
- Sender: newspost@umbc3.umbc.edu (News posting account)
- Organization: Univ. of MD, Baltimore County
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:02:31 GMT
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- There are still a few people protesting the idea of gender flags, but
- most people seem to be complaining not about the theory but the
- practice. Naturally, there is no way all the servers will install a
- little hack in the code to record or even pass on gender information.
- Having it as a field in a /who list is near-impossible (I think it would
- take some hacking of the client code, too), at least in the near future.
-
- What can be done, however, is to use the built-in CTCP and /on commands
- in your .ircrc... why was CTCP created? for expandability. If enough
- people find the CTCP version of a gender flag useful, it is possible
- that the illustrious IRC.writers will be inspired to include it as a
- field in the /who list in a major revision of the Server and Client
- software. Complaining about wanting a gender flag but doing nothing
- toward making do will hardly convince people, especially those who have
- the authority/ability to do so, to change anything.
-
- This is a repost of the CTCP gender flag, dare I say, standard:
-
- /ON -CTCP "* * GENDER *" /ctcp $0 $2 <your gender/nasty_response/whatever>
- /ALIAS GENDER /CTCP $0 GENDER
-
- /gender <nick> sends a CTCP request to <nick> for his/her gender, and if
- (s)he has the first line in his/her .ircrc a CTCP reply will be
- generated. If the /on line is not installed either a CTCP ERRMSG will be
- generated, or nothing will happen (not sure which.... anyone?).
-
- Anyone out there who is in favor of gender flags, install the CTCP
- version and say so!
-
- -ShadowJac (on IRC, anyway)
-