i did not take offense in any way to the comment, and personally don't see why i would have. :) i guess i just don't take offense at much :) (and as a CS major, am used to being in primarily male society...) :) ~Erin
> On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 11:35, Stuart Jansen wrote: > > Of course, learning to use the CLI is good for you. Puts hair on > the > > chest. ;-) > > This comment was originally meant to be ironic, highlighting the fact > that a CLI can be distasteful to some but really doesn't need to be > defended. Experience will show that the superiority of the command > line > is an axiom. > > Unfortunately, I didn't notice the original author's name until after > someone made a comment to me. Given the high probability that the > author > was (and probably continues to be) female, I realized that these days > some overly sensitive people might consider such a comment sexual > harassment. It wasn't. > > Some people may be wondering why I sent this message. We don't have > enough females in the club and I want to make sure I'm not > responsible > for scaring one of them off. > ===== http://www.userfriendly.org __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
