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In article <MDxL6.7135$55.2583087@newsrump.sjc.telocity.net>, "David A.
Cornelson" <dcornelson@placet.com> wrote:
> Emily, or la Comtesse Emilie de la cour des aventures cyberntiques, we're
> mostly men around here. I've been programming for 16 years and still the
> percentages of women in my industry are abismal. We would love for it to
> be so complacent as to be unnoticed that you're a woman and that you write
> great Interactive Fiction. But it's only human nature for men to find more
> reasons to love women and to profess that love in sonnet and song and yes,
> assignations.

And after the inevitable response, he wrote:
> By baiting you on the mud I was seeking a whitty repost, we'd all laugh,
> and that would be the end of it.
>
> Little did I know I was poking a stick into a bee hive.

Well, with an approach like that, that's all you'll be poking your stick
into.


mathew
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