RE: Beware off-list conspiracies!

[Miller, Jeffrey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Seeberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 03:50 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Beware off-list conspiracies!
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 4:42 PM
> Subject: Re: Beware off-list conspiracies!
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> > At 10:00 23-07-2002 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote:
> >
> > >Jeroen was *your* boyfriend first.  You don't know?  :)
> >
> > I suddenly got this unpleasant feeling that someday, somewhere, 
> > somehow, this suggestion of a homosexual relationship will 
> come back 
> > to haunt me...
> >
> It occurs to me that using "boyfriend" as a euphemism for 
> antagonist or flamewar opponent, might be a useful bit of 
> list slang. The suggestion of a homosexual relationship or 
> being tarred with the term might help keep the peace in an 
> indirect way without being seriously insulting.

I have to disagree, Rob. I think using any term of that nature in a negative 
conotation to be offensive.

-j-