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From: dsill@ark1.nswc.navy.mil (Dave Sill)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Ten Commandments of Personal Computing
Keywords: PC Computer Ethics Humor
Message-ID: <19@ark1.nswc.navy.mil>
Date: 15 Jul 89 15:33:37 GMT
References: <12702@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Dave Sill)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA
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In article <12702@well.UUCP> gail@well.UUCP (Gail Gurman) writes:
>From San Jose Mercury News, Sunday morning, July 2, 1989
> 
>THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF PERSONAL COMPUTING
>by Paul Andrews

Reprinted without permission.  Well, I guess that's OK as long as you
buy the paper if you decide to *use* the posting.

 >  :
 >VI.  THOU SHALT NOT TREAT WOMEN AS COMPUTER INFERIORS.
 > 
 >  :
 > 
 >     Guys, we need to lighten up.  Think of it this way:  If your
 >boss wanted a hand setting up  dBASE IV (and your boss is  male),
 >would you ask _him_ if it was to keep recipes on?
 > 
 >[Note:   I have  a problem  with this  one.   For one  thing, the
 >author is apparently writing  to a male audience.  Also,  while I
 >agree  that  he is  essentially right  about  why many  women are
 >excluded from "computerdom", I think  he disregards the number of
 >women who ARE full card-carrying citizens of computerdom.  End of
 >speech. -- G.G.]

Of course he's writing to a male audience.  That's what the "Guys..."
is intended to indicate.  He's not trying to convince *women* not to
discriminate against women...

 >  :
 >VIII. THOU SHALT MIND THY P'S AND Q'S AND TLA'S.
 > 
 >  :
 >     We're starting  to sound  like small-town  bureaucrats.   Do
 >your part to  fight TLA proliferation.   (TLA, of course,  stands
 >for Three-Letter Abbreviations.)

TLA, of course, stands for Three-Letter *Acronymn*.
-- 
Dave Sill (dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil)