Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!snorkelwacker!apple!bionet!hayes.fai.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: rpw3%rigden.wpd@sgi.com (Rob Warnock) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Manhole Covers (was: 10-NYT and 10-NJB) Message-ID: <9344@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 26 Jun 90 07:14:49 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Rob Warnock Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 16 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 457, Message 8 of 12 In article <9180@accuvax.nwu.edu> unhd!unhtel!paul@uunet.uu.net (Paul S. Sawyer) writes: | By the way, what about a non-sexist term like "utility access cover"? | ("person hole" just doesn't make it.... B-) The city of Sacramento, California, has recently decided to call them "maintenance holes", which -- besides being decently neuter and even descriptive -- means they won't have to change the hundreds of City bluprints which have them marked as "M-H"! Rob Warnock, MS-9U/510 rpw3@sgi.com rpw3@pei.com Silicon Graphics, Inc. (415)335-1673 Protocol Engines, Inc. 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, CA 94039-7311