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Re: Where is JDK 1.7_15 going on Mac

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On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:18:55 +0100, Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm>
wrote:

>Joerg Meier schrieb:
>> Referring to the original poster of a thread as the OP is something that
>> has been around since before there was such a thing as web forums, let
>> alone stackoverflow. But even if it had come from SO, there would still be
>> no reason for your baselessly hostile reaction to a term that is nothing
>> but descriptive, and by no stretch of the imagination could be considered
>> derogatory.
>
>Well you can call an employee working in a bank a clerk,
>or a stewerdess from an airplane, etc..
>
>But why on earth do I use a plain e-mail for posting here?
>Sure not to be called OP.

     So?  One reason to use "OP" is because one is not sure which
pronoun to use.  Your name is an example of this.  "Jan" is both a
male name and a female name.
>
>I don't murne that it is derogartory. It is just lazy
>of OP+1 (i.e. Lew, I am not that lazy) to use OP.

     Nope.  It is useful.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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Where is JDK 1.7_15 going on Mac Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2013-02-19 22:04 +0100
  Re: Where is JDK 1.7_15 going on Mac Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-02-19 13:19 -0800
  Re: Where is JDK 1.7_15 going on Mac markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-02-19 13:42 -0800
    Re: Where is JDK 1.7_15 going on Mac Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-02-19 14:27 -0800
      Re: Where is JDK 1.7_15 going on Mac Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2013-02-20 09:05 +0100
        Re: Where is JDK 1.7_15 going on Mac lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-02-20 08:40 +0000
          Re: Where is JDK 1.7_15 going on Mac Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2013-02-20 09:46 +0100
            Re: Where is JDK 1.7_15 going on Mac lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-02-20 09:19 +0000
            Re: Where is JDK 1.7_15 going on Mac Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-02-20 08:05 -0800
              Re: Where is JDK 1.7_15 going on Mac Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2013-02-20 17:48 +0100
                Re: Where is JDK 1.7_15 going on Mac Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-02-20 10:05 -0800
                Re: Where is JDK 1.7_15 going on Mac Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2013-02-20 19:53 +0100
                Re: Where is JDK 1.7_15 going on Mac Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-22 15:11 -0500
                Re: Where is JDK 1.7_15 going on Mac Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-02-20 20:47 +0100
                Re: Where is JDK 1.7_15 going on Mac Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2013-02-20 22:18 +0100
                Re: Where is JDK 1.7_15 going on Mac Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2013-02-20 22:21 +0100
                Re: Where is JDK 1.7_15 going on Mac Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2013-02-20 22:25 +0100
                Re: Where is JDK 1.7_15 going on Mac Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com> - 2013-02-21 00:38 +0100
                Re: Where is JDK 1.7_15 going on Mac Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2013-02-21 09:43 -0800
                Re: Where is JDK 1.7_15 going on Mac Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-22 15:18 -0500
        Re: Where is JDK 1.7_15 going on Mac Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-22 15:10 -0500
  Re: Where is JDK 1.7_15 going on Mac Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2013-02-20 09:01 +0100

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