On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Andreas Waldenburger <use...@geekmail.invalid> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:37:21 +0100 Simon Brunning > <si...@brunningonline.net> wrote: >> On 10 June 2010 08:19, Shashwat Anand <anand.shash...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > And please stop using 'sir' for heaven's sake. >> >> Not least because list list isn't male only. > > Not that I know a lot about Indian English, but I think the Indian mind > tends to use "Sir" as a general respectful address. Or such.
In any case, if one is using an address, it needs to be plural since mailinglists/usenet involve communicating with a multitude. Cheers, Chris -- The language specification for English leaves much to be desired. http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
