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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: the point of spell(1) isn't spelling
Message-ID: <2661@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Jan-86 14:04:06 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 28 14:04:06 1986
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In article <1541@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> benn@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Thomas Cox) writes:

>                                         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....

I am opposed to this, too.  I see what the goal, is:  the net is
(for the large part) a shitty place, and maybe if we make it more
difficult to post it will get better.  But I think this is the wrong
approach;  I don't agree that making the system more cumbersome to use
will improve it.  If you like you can go so far to put a forced
"sleep(600)" in the postnews/Pnews systems to make it even more
cumbersome!  I agree we need to somehow "shrink the net", but not to
the disadvantage of its users.

(yes, this is mainly a philosophical point which I really don't want
 to debate here).
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