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From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: another problem with colon
Message-ID: <671@utcsstat.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-Jun-83 17:15:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: utcsstat.671
Posted: Tue Jun 14 17:15:51 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 14-Jun-83 21:26:33 EDT
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Organization: U. of Toronto, Canada
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I would rather if the VERY FIRST TIME you type something wrong in response to
the colon you saw that obnoxious message but that subsequently it NEVER was
printed again. If you have a CHRONIC_CONFUSED_BY_COLONS or something in your
enviornment then you could get the message every time.

I am very tired of seing this message at 1200 baud  --  my hand is
conditioned to type space to more whenever input stops and I want it to
continue. Even if whitespace was ignored when a : appearswould be some help,
but I think that long, chatty, error messages are only second to
errors that  in obnoxiousness. They also perpertrate the notion
that the manual is meant as an excellent paperweight but not intended
to be read. Of course, the idea of reading an inch of lpr output (the
size of the 2.10 news documentation including how to install it) may
strike terror in the hearts of mere mortals.

Laura Creighton
utzoo!utcsstat!laura