In-Reply-To: <dkl36d$2ak$1@sea.gmane.org> andy@servocomm.freeserve.co.uk (Andy Little) wrote (abridged):

Where it is used 'she' always refers to 'the user'.

If you have two protagonists (author and user) it can help to give them different genders and to be consistent about which way round they are.

I dont use that convention myself for obvious reasons !

Hmm. I suspect we could argue about this for weeks. -- Dave Harris, Nottingham, UK.