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From: bsouther@uok.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 27-Oct-83 21:26:05 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 27 21:26:05 1983
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uok!bsouther    Oct 26 01:12:00 1983

Those of you who are using the sequencer to read this probably are
wondering "what the #^$*@ is this person doing responding to some-
thing as old as this discussion", but I just wanted to stick my
little comment in here....

We here at the University of Oklahoma had a similar argument (dis-
cussion?) through our local 'msgs' system regarding the way different
people signed their messages.  Some signed as "uok!login", some as
"uokvax!login", some as "AUS:login", some as "login", etc. ad nauseam.
The argument that was propigating itself at the time was over which
computer system here is "better" -- thus, each user signed with the
prefix that suited their opinion best.  What it finally boiled down
to was this:  it doesn't MATTER if there is a "generally approved"
idea; there will ALWAYS be *someone* who disapproves.  This can
be applied in this situation, too.  It doesn't matter WHAT prefix
we use on our names -- there'll always be someone who thinks that
it should be different.  We can fuss and fume all we want about
using a "common, non-sexist" prologue to our names, but I don't
think that there'll be any real change in the way it's being done
now by the one fact that there are TOO MANY people with ideas of
what the "right way" is, and since we already have something that
(somewhat) works, the change is not critical but cosmetic.

Are there better places that we can vent our energies??  Perhaps,
but we won't -- like I said, there'll always be someone who wants
things different from the way they are.  I now propose a solution:
use the prefix "JPO" -- for "Just Plain 'Ol".

		JPO Brad Southers
		Univ. of Oklahoma@Norman
		uok!bsouther	(for identification, not argument)