Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Black hole file
Message-ID: <9429@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 18 Jan 89 21:43:08 GMT
References: <498@sdrc.UUCP> <1019@vsi.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1019@vsi.COM> friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
>P.S. - what about the *gals* on the net? ;-)

Can we stop it with this "sexist language" shit?
"Guys" is generic except when specifically contrasted to "gals"
or "dolls", which wasn't being done here.  I sometimes refer to
females here as "you guys" and I've heard females do the same.