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- From: shadow@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Matt Mosley)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: "Gender Flags" -- The end of the thread.
- Keywords: gender lame idiotic
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.213410.23584@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 21:34:10 GMT
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- >ditto goes for RL conversations with people face-to-face. I don't see
- >any reason not to advertise one's gender on IRC if one is comfortable
- >with it. I don't think people would object to the idea of a picture
- >for each nick (assuming that the bandwidth, etc., were there to
- >support it), which would certainly give away not only gender but some
- >rendition of physical appearance.
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- Oh, come on. IRC takes up enough bandwidth already. Why add more totally
- useless features for the #hotsex crowd?
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- Matt...
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