Posted by dorayme on 07/06/07 23:54

In article <19uji.187574$Yk6.140212@reader1.news.saunalahti.fi>,
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:

> Scripsit Neredbojias:
>
> > Anyway, I suspect dorayme has a cold or something. She hasn't been
> > up to her usual standards of irascibility lately. Buonasera.
>
> Is dorayme a she? How do you know? (And please tell me why I care.)
>
> This is yet another case against using nicknames. Anybody interested in the
> sex of a well-behaving Usenaut can trivially figure it out from his or her
> first name, using some minimal web browsing. Alternatively, people can jump
> into conclusions, like assuming every name ending with -a to be female.

.... but... but... my name ends in an "e". Where does that leave
my sexuality?

--
dorayme

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