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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: spell(1) as a pre-posting safety valve
Message-ID: <1048@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 13:45:04 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.1048
Posted: Tue Jan 21 13:45:04 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 21-Jan-86 15:10:05 EST
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Suggestion for improving quality/cutting quantity of net postings:

How about we modify Pnews/postnews to run the poster's article
through spell(1) before accepting it for posting, and putting
the user back in $EDITOR to make any corrections?

As well as improving the spelling of postings, this would allow
a reasonable amount of time for the user to reflect on the posting
and consider whether it should be sent.  spell(1) is slow
enough on most systems that all postings would be reconsidered.

Dave Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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