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From: 44617850@ugly.cs.ubc.ca (Howard Alan Treesong)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Proposed lawsuit
Summary: Counter-proposal.
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Date: 20 Jul 88 15:42:45 GMT
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I have a few questions.

First, who is the USENET administrator for Berkeley, and in particular,
for the violet.berkeley.edu machine?  What does s/he think of the
current Mark Ethan Smith firestorm raging in alt.flame, misc.legal,
news.admin, and soc.women?

Second, would it be possible to modify the newsreader software
used on violet.berkeley.edu to change all occurrences of "she",
"her", and "Ms." to "he", "his", and "Mr.", and to install this
modified software on Mr. Smith's account (era1987@violet.berkeley.edu)?
Mr. Smith has stated that he has suffered considerable emotional
distress because several USENET articles have referred to him
using feminine pronouns ("she" and "her"), and that he intends
to sue over this issue.

I would like to know if this solution is:  (a) feasible;
(b) acceptable to Mr. Smith; (c) acceptable to the rest of the net.
If not, I would like to know why.

Please use e-mail if possible.

Howard Alan Treesong
44617850@ugly.cs.ubc.ca; ubc-cs!ugly.cs.ubc.ca!44617850