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From: benn@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Thomas Cox)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: the point of spell(1) isn't spelling
Message-ID: <1541@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Jan-86 09:39:36 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 26 09:39:36 1986
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In article <2645@amdahl.UUCP> gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett) writes:
>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. 
>
>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

Before everyone else responds, too...  No, the point of this is NOT
to correct spelling per se.  It is EXPRESSLY to make posting *more*
cumbersome.  The correcting of misspellings is a side benefit.
   The more time one spends on a posting, the fewer posts one sends
to the net.  And the more effort involved, especially nontrivial effort
[as opposed to "Do you really want to post this? [yn]" where one
automatically hits 'y'], the less volume is posted.  This front-end
for posting will not keep anyone from posting things that are important.
It just makes it less easy to flood the net with trivial postings.
   BTW, did spell(1) really accept 'thru'? :-)

Who, me?  I spell perfetly!
-- 

  Thomas Cox   ...ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!benn

     Live long, 
     avoid intentionalist terminology, 
     and prosper.