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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: spell(1) as a pre-posting safety valve
Message-ID: <2645@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 25-Jan-86 16:50:29 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 25 16:50:29 1986
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Reply-To: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett)
Organization: Amdahl Corp, UTS Products Group
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Summary: I disagree


Oh dear!  Well as I see this proposal becoming popular (force spell(1)
to be applied to articles before posted), let me raise an
opposing point of view:

				NO!

I agree that good spelling is an important thing, and it would be
nice if every article contained no misspelled words, but let
the *poster* do it!  Why make article posting more cumbersome
for those of us with perfect spelling?  And besides, we aren't
even talking about solving a *technical* problem with news, but
to appease the pedantists who cannot tolerate seeing misspelled
words posted to the network.  Perhaps some spell-like filter
should be provided for *them*, so that they will never see a
misspelled word again!


PS -- I ran this article thru spell before posting it (I thought
	you might like that).
-- 
Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,cbosgd,seismo,hplabs}!amdahl!gam

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