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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: The nature of wizards
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Date: 6 Oct 90 05:09:50 GMT
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In article <270B296A.17D3@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>[ Followups to comp.unix.misc ]
>
>According to russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto):
>>In article <270897A8.6F6C@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>>>A true wizard is not only well-informed and experienced.  She is also
>>>gracious and generous.  She patiently answers questions that lesser
>>>beings might consider to be too "simple" or even "stupid" to bother
>>>with.
>>
>>Sounds more like a 'slave consultant' than a wizard.
>
>People of real stature need not be slaves to be helpful.

Right-- and they have time to constantly answer the same simple (or stupid)
questions over and over and over again.  Say, how do you delete a file which
beings with '-'?
>
>>Why do you use 'she'?
>
>A better question is, "Why not?"

Why did you delete my answer to that question (which I anticipated)-- because
NONE of the regular posters to c.u.w seemed to be female, and in fact no
unix wizards on the net seem to be female... Using 'she' to refer to what, for
whatever reason, is an exclusively male group, seems to be dead wrong.

If you know of any female unix wizards on the net, please tell me.  I'd bet
that you could count them on one hand.
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