notes@ucbcad.UUCP (11/03/83)
#N:ucbesvax:7500043:000:1018 ucbesvax!turner Nov 2 11:51:00 1983 Telling the whole net about someone's spelling errors (committed, perhaps, in the heat of passionate rebuttal to possibly unfair attacks) is like appearing to listen carefully to someone else's point of view, and then, at the end, saying "you have a piece of lettuce or something between your front teeth." Look: jj writes quite well, when not provoked beyond endurance. (Maybe his threshold is a little low; I don't know, 'cause I don't get his mail.) He tends to confine himself to the facts (however selectively) when he isn't simply flaming about how people ignore factual elements of his writing in preference to picayune lexicographic detail. If provoking him beyond endurance is your idea of fun, fine-- I will unsubscribe to this newsgroup. I have always been in favor of a net.spell, where people can vent flame along these lines (as well as educate the truly needy). But I don't know why I should have to read about this kind of thing in any other place. --- Michael Turner (ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner)