Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!pesnta!hplabs!hao!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!Jerry E. PournelleFrom: Jerry E. Pournelle Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Is this really Mr. Pournelle? Message-ID: <6359@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 11:28:17 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6359 Posted: Wed Dec 5 11:28:17 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 05:44:30 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 49 You are certainly correct. One should never write anything, even for limited public distribution, that is not letter perfect in spelling and grammar. To do so is inexcusable; therefore I can hardly beg your forgiveness. Mr. Coates, I appreciate your pointing out the egregious error I have committed, and I assure you I shall endeavor not to do so again; certainly not for so frivolous a purpose as giving net correspondents the benefits of my experiences at shows they might not have attended. Of course I am usually paid for careful writing; so perhaps the thing to do is obvious. My thanks. Date: 27 Nov 84 17:49:24 GMT From: Rick Coates Reply-To: info-cpm at AMSAA.ARPA To: info-cpm at AMSAA.ARPA Re: Is this really Mr. Pournelle? Is this really from Jerry Pournelle, science fiction author and columnist in Byte Magazine - or is someone on the net impersonating him? (Remember moscvax, et al). > Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/12/84; site iddic.UUCP > Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA > Path: iddic!orca!tektronix!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!internet!"Jerry E. Pournelle" > From: "Jerry E. Pournelle" > Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm > Subject: Microsystems/Tech Journal > Message-ID: <5930@brl-tgr.ARPA> > Date: 20 Nov 84 10:20:01 GMT > Date-Received: 23 Nov 84 07:51:06 GMT > Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA > Organization: Ballistic Research Lab > Lines: 5 > > I met Susan Gelpert-Cole, Ph.D., one of the editors of PC Tech > Journal at COMDEX. She's sharp. The magazine may not be a bad > buy. Me, I never saw one before. Obviously fyou don't care > for PC you won't want it since it is a captive; Susan says they > do not write about PClones even yet already. I find it hard to believe that a professional writer would put out something like this, even to a limited public audience. Several of the other recent submissions from POURNE@mit-mc are similar in English quality. Typos are one thing, 'even yet already' is another. Rick Coates ...!tektronix!iddic!rick (csnet has problems at our site)