no compromises

[Pat Pagano, TD 176.13]
> Ray you seem to find that alot around here people addressing >
everything BUT the point you
> are interested in,mind that spelling and trim those replies though!
> The point being
> We should not compromise at all.

Pat, I felt the need to reply to this since I'm one of those
who've complained about spelling and length of quoti.

First of all - I don't think anyone's ever requested that the
*replies* be trimmed: I personally like really long and well-
thought-out responses. It's the unnecessary *quoting* of
old posts I complained about. Maybe it's anal of me to
suggest it, but if everyone provided Digest.Message reference
numbers in their quotes, it would be easy to go back and read
the original, so those of us who save all these Digests don't
have so much redundant waste of hard-drive space.

Along these lines, I'm hoping some day to publish the Digests
in print, and it would mean a lot of wasted paper.
(Feel sympathetic to our tree friends)

Secondly, I realize that everyone has his own personal literary
style, and in an open forum like this, there's no reason why
that aspect of individualism should be curbed. But careful
spelling and punctuation add immensely in helping to get a
point across. You and Kriag Grady are the biggest offenders
here, and I think it's a shame, because you both invariably
have something interesting to say. It just makes it more
difficult to wade thru it and get the gist.

And we all (me too) make typos now and then, so I'm not saying
everyone needs to be perfect... but a little more effort in
this areas would be appreciated, at least by me.

Joseph L. Monzo monz@juno.com
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/homepage.html
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monz@juno.com wrote:

> But careful
> spelling and punctuation add immensely in helping to get a
> point across. You and Kriag Grady are the biggest offenders
> here, and I think it's a shame, because you both invariably
> have something interesting to say.

I do do a spell check every time! sorry about punctuation!....?
-- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island
www.anaphoria.com

Kraig Grady wrote:

> From: Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@anaphoria.com>
>
> monz@juno.com wrote:
>
> > But careful
> > spelling and punctuation add immensely in helping to get a
> > point across. You and Kriag Grady are the biggest offenders
> > here, and I think it's a shame, because you both invariably
> > have something interesting to say.
>
> I do do a spell check every time! sorry about punctuation!....?

This is a typical complaint on email lists. It's medium where
folks have to chill out about issues like spelling and punctuation.

I'd like to think I do OK, I use intuition.

I'd point out the real weird stuff that happens on this list,
but I'm being real polite and not saying anything, waiting until
it passes.

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