Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!ut-ngp!werner From: werner@ut-ngp.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Can we or can't we, live with typos and grammatical errors? Message-ID: <419@ut-ngp.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Jul-83 03:26:55 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.419 Posted: Sat Jul 9 03:26:55 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Jul-83 19:58:07 EDT Lines: 25 I admit it, I do not capitalize (consistently), I am not very careful in correcting my grammar and spelling, and I DON'T CARE if it ruins your day, because it shouldn't. I think there is a place for investing time and pride in writting flawlessly, but it is not HERE. I don't know if I am a member of a minority or the majority - but rare is the case when I do not understand or get confused about the authors meaning, which is all that I really care about, " getting the message". And, I might be atypical, but more often than not, you find me here talking to you after midnite, tired, but enthusiastically exercising my TTY or CRT over a 300 Baud line - and not interested to hide the fact that I do not earn my living by typing or publishing. So all you perfectionists, I don't mind your flaming about ANYTHING on net.flame, but ..... I'd rather you'd go to your corner to invent a better mouse-trap. I could be naming names now ........ Werner (UUCP: { decvax!eagle , ucbvax!nbires } !ut-ngp!werner or: { allegra, ctvax, gatech, ihnp4, rice, vortex } !ut-ngp!werner ) (ARPA: cs.werner@utexas-20 or werner@utexas-11 )