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From: slf@teddy.UUCP (Scott Fisher)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Phil Ngai, Chris Stassen, and now, Henry Mensch . . .
Message-ID: <564@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Oct-84 09:10:12 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 16 09:10:12 1984
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>From: ag5@pucc-i (Henry C. Mensch)
>Message-ID: <659@pucc-i>
>References: <615@trwspp.UUCP> <639@pucc-i> <835@dual.UUCP> <529@teddy.UUCP>
>Organization: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

>	Oh, Scott, grow up!  If we can't flame about grammar in net.flame,
>then where *can* we flame about grammar?  Perhaps we should also have a 
>newsgroup called net.californiastops and net.putzes for people like you?

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The following is form an article in net.announce.newusers
[              A Primer on How to Work With the USENET Community
[                        Chuq Von Rospach (nsc!chuqui)
[ Subject: A Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community
[ Message-ID: <350@cbosgd.UUCP>
[ Date: Sun, 30-Sep-84 18:52:37 EDT
[ Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus

[                      Spelling Flames Considered Harmful

[  Every few months a plague descends on USENET called the spelling flame.
[  It starts out when someone posts an article correcting the spelling or
[  grammar in some article.  The immediate result seems to be for everyone on
[  the net to turn into a 6th grade English teacher and pick each other's
[  postings apart for a few weeks.  This is not productive and tends to cause
[  people who used to be friends to get angry at each other.

[  It is important to remember that we all make mistakes, and that there are
[  many users on the net who use English as a second language.  If you feel
[**that you must make a comment on the quality of a posting, please do so by**
[**mail, not on the network.                                                **
[ (*)UNIX is a trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories.


Perhaps you should make a new net group called net.whiners for people of
your caliber. Then you and all your 6th grade English teacher buddies
can complain all you like and criteque each other's spelling and argue
all the rules you want without bothering the rest of us. -- 
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                                                        Scott
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