If anyone wondered why in our DEC report in CI No 1,035, the recipient of mail via the new Distributed Directory Services facility is unequivocally female, the answer is simple: whenever a sexy new piece of software like that arrives in an office, the men immediately want to try it out by sending a message to whichever woman colleague most appeals to them; the women are rather more reticent about trying it out, but if they do, they will want to send a message to their best friend among the other women, so the recipient of the first message to be sent will always be female – quod erat, as they say, demonstrandum.
