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flames
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 22 Feb 1999 21:12:19 GMT
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Joel Shafer <joel@connect.&NoMoreSpam&net>
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Maybe Todd should create lugnut.robotics.flame :(
At 01:07 PM 2/22/99 -0800, you wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Steve Bryan wrote:
> > When making critical comments about people for whom English is a second
> > language, it would be a good idea to avoid simple spelling errors:
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> On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Matthew Hunter wrote:
> > A sentence containing circa 47 words (with the word "post" repeated 5 times)
> > could best be described as circumlocutory, but to use a passage peppered • with
> > grammatical error when decrying another's stupidity is merely ignorant.
>
> While I agree that spelling and grammatical errors are not desirable,
> neither of you addressed the original point. The list was spammed with
> several "get me off this list" messages. That generated a flame. The
> flame was flamed with "maybe English is not the first language of this
> person". And *that* response generated "since when is that an excuse for
> stupidity?".
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> Whether or not the spammer knew English well is not the point. The point is
> that spamming the list with "get me off this list" is stupid. Albeit, in
> this case, effective.
>
> Dave Taira | Broken pipes, broken tools, people bending broken rules / |
> Hired Gun | Hound dog howlin', bullfrog croakin' / Everything is broken |
> bodhi@foad.org | --Bob Dylan, "Everything is Broken" |
>
> --
> Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
Joel Shafer joel@connect.net
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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: Re: Fw: Idiot Children ? More like Idiot Adults.
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| I would like to post a clarification to the message posted by rajackson@qnx.com. The original posting : (...) I would find it embarrasing if this message were mine, so have tried to tidy up the statement by removing errors in spelling and (...) (28 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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