[OTR-users] Discussion of the use of "his" as a gender-neutral pronoun in an unlikely place

[Paul Wouters]

On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Kat Hanna wrote:

> It's not okay, as pretty much everyone has suggested, to substitute a
> passive construction: the very point of the alert is that your buddy has
> closed her/his end of the connection, *but yours is still open*.

semi-off topic.
If it is that important that we close our end as well, since our remote
buddy closed his/her end, why don't we just close it instead of asking
the (local) user to close it?

Then we could just write: OTR session with $buddy closed.

Paul