sf wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 21:30:42 +0000 (UTC), tert in seattle
> wrote:
>
>> Ophelia wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>> > ...
>> >> On 7/13/2014 12:19 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>> >>> ...
>> >>>> DUH... that's why I said you should have ping'd tert and asked him to
>> >>>> email you. If he wanted to he wouldn't do so with a munged email
>> >>>> address.
>> >>>
>> >>> He??? I thought Tert was a lady???
>> >>>
>> >> Heck, I don't know. I guess I should have typed he/she. 
>> >>
>> >> At any rate, I wouldn't ping someone with those sorts of questions. I'd
>> >> just ask him/her to email me. If they want to reply via email they will.
>> >
>> > Well s/he responded and didn't seem to mind. Even made a wee bit joke about
>> > it 
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>>
>> please call me "it" or "they" and stop with the slashed personal pronouns
>
> That's what happens with a name like "tert". You'd be an "it" if you
> were a machine. They know you're a mammal, so s/he fits - and don't
> expect everyone to remember your gender. Everyone knows mine because
> swishy publishes it on a regular basis.
iron-clad logic as always