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From: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.flame
Subject: Re: MS/Miss/Mrs.
Message-ID: <2254@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 16:58:51 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 22 16:58:51 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 23-Jan-85 19:28:38 EST
References: <1680@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <1962@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian)
Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale
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Summary: 

In article <1962@sun.uucp> sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten) writes:
>I can't tell you the battles I've had with companies,
>and undoubtedly, aided and abbetted by their computers, which were aided and
>abbetted by their programmers, who simply cannot address a standard computer
>generated form letter as:
>
>Dear Sunny
>
>but instead insist on using:
>
>Dear Mr./Mrs./Ms./Miss S. Kirsten.

My first initial is S (from my father's name), so I often wind up on mailing
lists as SR MATEOSIAN. More than once, some clever person (or program) has
"politely" spelled out this honorific, so that a significant amount of
computer-related junk mail comes to me addressed to

			Sister Mateosian


-- 
Richard Mateosian
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