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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!e9g2000vbi.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3d539b98-5db9-4afe-abcf-6d0d5332ec48@e9g2000vbi.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: Re: JMS do you think I was hurtful to you? Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 23:03:10 -0800 (PST) References: <8r5h0cFfpdU1@mid.individual.net> <8r5r0aFkalU1@mid.individual.net> <1jw8oji.1rx7kfw6rxbw2N%real-not-anti-spam-address@apple-juice.co.uk> <1715531813318641056.599413%steve%-malloc.co.uk@news.individual.net> <8r69inFgpdU1@mid.individual.net> <651888872318646590.851163%steve%-malloc.co.uk@news.individual.net> <8r7bdaFfc3U1@mid.individual.net> <1jw9n7w.jaydxm7jch01N%%steve%@malloc.co.uk> <0tgtk69imancs9libl30oqin9mqb8et67t@4ax.com>  <87duk6tjo7sopmlrkn8n7c4npkaokhmot9@4ax.com>  <8rdvlrFm9vU1@mid.individual.net>  Lines: 30 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.71.49.124 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1297321390 22418 127.0.0.1 (10 Feb 2011 07:03:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 07:03:10 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e9g2000vbi.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.71.49.124; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5.8; U; en) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.01,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3095 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.moderation:37185

On Feb 10, 3:15=A0am, "Wm..."  wrote: > Tue, 8 Feb 2011 22:50:27 <8rdvlrFm9...@mid.individual.net> > uk.net.news.moderation Steve Walker  > > >Wm... wrote: > > >> I asked JMS if it thought I was hurtful. > > >> Notice it hasn't answered that really simple question yet. > > >Your dehumanising reference to "it" disgusts me. > > Clearly it is human, I'm questioning who it is

Honestly, the "it" thing does you no favours. If you are genuinely using the word to express a rather inexplicable skepticism about whether JMS is really female, then as others have pointed out, you can say something like "they" instead of "it".

But if you're just using it as an insult, to suggest that JMS is somehow less than a person, then it really reflects badly on you and you should stop for your own sake. The only other posters I've encountered who've regularly called their enemies "it" have been incredibly obnoxious and immune to reason generally (for example a poster called Jaded on the old Cycling P[l]us forum). You may be a bit strange, unintelligible and patronising sometimes but you're not that obnoxious, so please don't lower yourself to the likes of Jaded's level by continuing the "it" nonsense any longer. Can you name one person who is impressed by it?