Hello Monique Y. Herman (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> On 2004-03-25, Andreas Janssen penned: > >> So far I have not seen any hostility towards women because they were >> female (at least on the mailing lists and in the usenet groups I >> read). I have however seen that in some cases people (newbies) who >> use women's names (mostly you don't know if the name is faked or not) >> receive polite answers from the mostly male participants where a male >> newbie would only have received a "Search the fscking archive/web". >> In some places (like the SelfHTML forum, http://selfforum.teamone.de) >> this beahviour has even repeatedly been subject to very long and >> sometimes heated discussions. > > I searched on "weib" on that forum (thinking that "weiblich" would get > a few hits, but got > > "Die Suchanfrage kann momentan nicht entgegen genommen werden. Alle > Ressourcen sind belegt. Bitte versuchen Sie es in einigen Minuten noch > einmal." This has been a problem for a while now. The servers are working at their limit most of the time, but the SelfHTML project is going to switch to new hardware soon. > Any ideas on better searches that I could try in a few minutes? My > German can be a bit flakey. I chose "name weiblich" and selected only the archives. "Gleichberechtigung" probably is another good search term. Here is one of the results: <http://selfforum.teamone.de/archiv/2004/2/71010/#m408675> This one also looks interesting. Someone thinks men use female names because they think that way they won't look like a fool it they ask qustions typical for newbies: <http://selfforum.teamone.de/archiv/2003/1/34178/#m186104> best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 Registered Linux User #267976 http://www.andreas-janssen.de/debian-tipps.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
