From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 29777 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2020 16:45:50 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 1 Aug 2020 16:45:50 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 857679CB62; Sun, 2 Aug 2020 02:45:46 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E49D39CB47; Sun, 2 Aug 2020 02:44:56 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 0187A9CB4A; Sun, 2 Aug 2020 02:44:28 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail.cs.dartmouth.edu (mail.cs.dartmouth.edu [129.170.212.100]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AA6C99CB41 for ; Sun, 2 Aug 2020 02:44:23 +1000 (AEST) Received: from tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (tahoe.cs.dartmouth.edu [129.170.212.20]) by mail.cs.dartmouth.edu (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id 071GiLRJ3214455 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 1 Aug 2020 12:44:21 -0400 Received: from tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (8.15.2/8.14.3) with ESMTP id 071GiLVO124092 for ; Sat, 1 Aug 2020 12:44:21 -0400 Received: (from doug@localhost) by tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id 071GiKXP124091 for tuhs@tuhs.org; Sat, 1 Aug 2020 12:44:20 -0400 From: Doug McIlroy Message-Id: <202008011644.071GiKXP124091@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2020 12:44:20 -0400 To: tuhs@tuhs.org User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [TUHS] Dennis Ritchie's dissertation X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" > The use of honorifics was subtly discouraged at the Labs. I never saw a policy statement, but nobody I knew used "Dr" (except those in the medical department) With the sole exception of the president's office, secretaries were instructed not to say "Dr so-and-so's office" when they picked up an unanswered phone call. (When that happened you could be sure that the party you were calling was genuinely unavailable. Part of the AT&T ethos--now abandoned--was that everybody, right up to the president, answered their own phones.) Doug