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I'm not being flippant in my comment. I am a lover of the language and an....
opponent of efforts to make it less useful. The original form was this:
Unless the sender gets back something by which
to judge the quality of the communication, the sender is acting in a way
that satisfies themselves but have little to do with what they want
communicated.
Dewey suggests this interpretation:
With my translation the sentence would read:
Unless the sender gets back something by which to judge the quality
of the communication, she is acting in a way that satisfies her but
has little to do with what she wants communicated.
Now, all you PC types out there, be honest. Which sounds better, Dewey's
reconstruction (which is nearly the same as my own, except that I very
much prefer the use of pronouns of either gender) or the original? Is not
the (arguably superior) aesthetic quality of the more nearly Standard
English version of some considerable value in conveying meaning?
Leigh