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At 9:07 AM +0100 3/26/01, Jon Crowcroft wrote:
i think the value of the IETF is its informality - the implied litigious
american attitude about "open" = "everyone MUST attend" etc would
break the IETF even more than pure size.
This is essentially what we mean when we say, "We believe in rough
I want to give you the benefit of the doubt. So, a gentle reminder. There
are women out here too.
He doesn't appear to be a native English speaker; I doubt that he
meant to exclude women. He probably meant "people" or "folks"
rather than "men."
I expect he speaks English better
Or better than most of us know English:
[antediluvian dictionary entry deleted]
I've seen people, er, men make that very same argument
using a handbook of secretarial practices published
in 1963. Be more creative in your sources!
On a related if somewhat minor note, I thought that
the
Be more creative in your sources!
if we're arguing eytomology, seems like we want accuracy, not revisionist
creativity.
Keith
