complaint from a customer...

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I received a complaint from a customer... obviously couldn't find anything else wrong, but... SHE got this email:

New Message: User XXXXX has used up 0% of his bandwidth and 149% of his a...

they're requesting that this mail header be made gender neutral...

:D
 
Customizable email templates for warning letters like this would be a better idea, although a more time consuming fix. Just like the new user email can be modified.
 
In the english language the male gender form has always been acceptable for use when the actual gender is unknown.

Except of course for customers, who are always right :) .

I'd prefer to see "it's". But I'd rather that John and Mark keep working on whatever it is they're working on now, rather than stopping to change it.

Jeff
 
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