On 2018/10/31 03:51, Marcel Schneider via Unicode wrote: > On 30/10/2018 at 18:59, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote: >> >> Marcel Schneider wrote: >> >>> This use case is different from the use case that led to submit >>> the L2/18-206 proposal, cited by Dr Ewell on 29/10/2018 at 20:29: >> >> I guess this is intended as a compliment. > > Right. > >> While many of the people you >> quoted do have doctoral degrees, many others of us do not.
And even those who have such degrees don't expect them to be used on a mailing list. > Making a safe distinction is beyond my knowledge, safest is not to > discriminate. Yes. The easiest way to not discriminate is to not use titles in mailing list discussions. That's what everybody else does, and what I highly recommend. Regards, Martin.
