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From: Ola Fosheim Grøstad <olag@ifi.uio.no>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 12:27:58 +0200 (MET DST)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
>>Well, research shows that knowing the other player's gender is important
>>for most users. If that isn't remotly related to sex, then I don't know..
>
>Again Ild lvoe to see the research you quote. A large portion fo the more
>spohpisticated popualtion considers such a question not only purposeless
>but out right invasive.
Check out the LambdaMOO collection of papers at the xerox parc ftpsite,
I think it's there.
> I'm also a bit dsiturbed at the inhearent
>sugegstion that the only reaon to know someone's sex is for purposes of
>sexual interraction. It suggests a rather limited opinion fo the value oif
>the opposite sex.
Oh.. Did I say sexual interaction? No? But we treat the other gender
differently, and in there is the flirt part. I guess I should have
said romantic interaction? You're not giving me much slack, are you?
Ola.