Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-ngp.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!respess From: respess@ut-ngp.UUCP (John Respess) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Chris's Major Conniption Message-ID: <1024@ut-ngp.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 14:15:10 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.1024 Posted: Thu Oct 11 14:15:10 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Oct-84 06:11:09 EDT References: <605@trwspp.UUCP>, <826@dual.UUCP> <1271@ihuxq.UUCP> <830@dual.UUCP> Organization: U.Texas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 32 Really, Helen Anne! Don't you realize how incredibly snotty it sounds to tell someone that you can't find mistakes in his spelling but his punctuation and usage are ragged at the edges? Do you think anyone who reads that and sees you make mistakes is going to fail to point them out? For example, what hap- pened to the comma that should grace > ... I'm a doddering old maid schoolmarm ... ? Where is it, huh? Saving it for something else? And since you bring it up, I guess you think it would be laughable to dodder - or to be an old maid - or to be a schoolmarm. But you do present yourself as (hacking and) hewing to that image. You have all the stodge of Simon and Mitchell and none of the re- deeming wit. Don't you realize what it means when you have to present us with a concensus? I'll spell it out for you - it means experts don't agree on some points. So are we supposed to take your distillation of the concensus as our guide? Well, I won't keep you guessing. We won't. We reserve the right to recklessly leave out commas (but you'd better not), add apostrophes to form the plurals of abbreviations, and even make up words. Try to stop us! There's an old day dawning! Down with doddering, old maid schoolmarms! And finally, I'm sick of seeing you do this: > I guess people of *your kind* > (sic) belong in an anarchy like the net. That word "sic" is not parenthetical; put it in brackets (these guys - []) where it belongs. John Respess respess@ut-ngp