From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option.
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:21:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170317162131.GA4354@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170317053620.GA16076@jocasta.intra>
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On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 06:36:20AM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 08:45:27PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
>
> ps Cl??ment: 'them'/'they' are pronouns if you don't know the gender and/or
> prefered pronoun of a person :)
>
>
> ... according to some. - but most linguists, and many orators (the president of
> the Free Software Foundation being one of them) consider this to be a misuse of
> the English language and refuse to (mis)use these words for such a purpose.
As a native USA English speaker, I think this usage is fine, and widely
accepted by speakers, at least in this country. There are some cases
where it sounds a little clunky, but we don't have other words for this
use case that enjoy wider common usage.
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Thread overview: 101+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-17 16:37 [PATCH 0/2] Openssh service patches Clément Lassieur
2017-02-17 16:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] services: openssh: Use PAM in sshd by default Clément Lassieur
2017-02-17 16:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] services: openssh: remove deprecated 'RSAAuthentication' option Clément Lassieur
2017-02-17 17:18 ` [PATCH 0/2] Openssh service patches ng0
2017-02-17 17:45 ` Julien Lepiller
2017-02-18 11:46 ` [PATCH 1/2] services: openssh: Enable PAM Clément Lassieur
2017-02-18 11:46 ` [PATCH 2/2] services: openssh: Remove deprecated 'RSAAuthentication' option Clément Lassieur
2017-02-18 15:43 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-02-18 18:32 ` Clément Lassieur
2017-02-19 18:54 ` ng0
2017-02-20 23:53 ` [PATCH 0/4] Openssh service patches Clément Lassieur
2017-02-20 23:53 ` [PATCH 1/4] services: openssh: Enable PAM Clément Lassieur
2017-02-22 9:22 ` Clément Lassieur
2017-02-22 21:07 ` [PATCH] " Clément Lassieur
2017-03-02 7:34 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-02-20 23:53 ` [PATCH 2/4] services: openssh: Remove deprecated options Clément Lassieur
2017-03-02 7:45 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-02-20 23:53 ` [PATCH 3/4] services: openssh: Fix 'PrintLastLog' default behaviour Clément Lassieur
2017-03-02 7:37 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-03-02 21:03 ` Clément Lassieur
2017-03-02 21:06 ` [PATCH 1/3] services: openssh: Enable PAM Clément Lassieur
2017-03-02 21:06 ` [PATCH 2/3] services: openssh: Remove deprecated options Clément Lassieur
2017-03-03 10:16 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-03-09 22:37 ` Leo Famulari
2017-03-02 21:06 ` [PATCH 3/3] services: openssh: Fix 'PrintLastLog' default behaviour Clément Lassieur
2017-03-03 10:19 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-03-09 22:37 ` Leo Famulari
2017-03-03 10:16 ` [PATCH 1/3] services: openssh: Enable PAM Danny Milosavljevic
2017-03-09 22:37 ` Leo Famulari
2017-03-10 18:25 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-02-20 23:53 ` [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option Clément Lassieur
2017-03-02 7:44 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-03-02 21:00 ` Clément Lassieur
2017-03-05 14:50 ` ng0
2017-03-07 20:49 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-03-07 21:01 ` Clément Lassieur
2017-03-16 10:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-16 20:45 ` ng0
2017-03-16 20:50 ` Clément Lassieur
2017-03-17 5:36 ` John Darrington
2017-03-17 11:08 ` grammar usage (was: Re: [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option.) ng0
2017-03-17 10:28 ` John Darrington
2017-03-17 10:42 ` ng0
2017-03-17 10:47 ` John Darrington
2017-03-17 10:57 ` grammar usage Andy Wingo
2017-03-17 11:12 ` John Darrington
2017-03-17 11:28 ` Andy Wingo
2017-03-17 13:58 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-03-17 14:13 ` John Darrington
2017-03-17 16:43 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2017-03-18 13:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-17 11:31 ` ng0
2017-03-17 16:13 ` grammar usage (was: Re: [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option.) Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2017-03-17 17:50 ` John Darrington
2017-03-17 16:21 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2017-03-17 17:58 ` [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option John Darrington
2017-03-18 11:09 ` ng0
2017-03-18 11:45 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2017-03-18 11:52 ` ng0
2017-03-18 12:10 ` John Darrington
2017-03-18 12:17 ` Catonano
2017-03-18 12:28 ` Catonano
2017-03-18 13:43 ` Being excellent to one another Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-19 15:47 ` dian_cecht
2017-03-19 16:33 ` John Darrington
2017-03-19 21:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-19 22:40 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-03-20 2:57 ` dian_cecht
2017-03-20 6:36 ` John Darrington
2017-03-20 8:57 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2017-03-20 9:54 ` John Darrington
2017-03-20 10:17 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2017-03-20 10:44 ` John Darrington
2017-03-20 11:08 ` Catonano
2017-03-20 11:21 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2017-03-20 11:53 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-03-20 12:12 ` ng0
2017-03-20 12:12 ` John Darrington
2017-03-20 12:10 ` John Darrington
2017-03-20 14:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-20 14:40 ` John Darrington
2017-03-20 23:54 ` dian_cecht
2017-03-21 8:50 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-03-20 11:02 ` Catonano
2017-03-20 15:09 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-03-20 15:17 ` John Darrington
2017-03-20 15:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-20 17:12 ` John Darrington
2017-03-21 9:14 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2017-03-21 10:02 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2017-03-21 12:07 ` John Darrington
2017-03-21 12:17 ` ng0
2017-03-21 12:26 ` John Darrington
2017-03-21 12:36 ` ng0
2017-03-21 12:38 ` ng0
2017-03-21 14:50 ` [EOT] " Ricardo Wurmus
2017-03-19 16:50 ` [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option Clément Lassieur
2017-03-21 0:17 ` Clément Lassieur
2017-02-18 15:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] services: openssh: Remove deprecated 'RSAAuthentication' option Ricardo Wurmus
2017-02-18 18:07 ` Clément Lassieur
2017-02-18 11:47 ` [PATCH 0/2] Openssh service patches Clément Lassieur
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