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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: spell(1) as a pre-posting safety valve
Message-ID: <353@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Jan-86 18:35:21 EST
Article-I.D.: mcgill-v.353
Posted: Sun Jan 26 18:35:21 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 31-Jan-86 23:43:28 EST
References: <1048@lsuc.UUCP>, <1175@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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> [ Mark D. Freeman  mdf@osu-eddie ]
>> [ mdf attributes to dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) ]

>> 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?
> This is a great idea!  It is a major nuisance (sp?) to [ run article
> through spell ] before posting, particularly if it is a
> response, rather than an original article.  I'd also like followup
> ("f" or "F" in rn) articles to be appended to $home/author_copy, just
> like original articles are.  (I'd also like outgoing mail appended to
> mbox.)

     ("..., just like original articles are."  How about another program
to check the grammar?)

     It would  be a  major  nuisance  (for  me) to  have  this  cruft in
postnews.  I can spell  better  than  spell,  at least most of the time.
Usually,  too,  I  know  when  I'm  unsure (eg  "nuisance", which  spell
approves  of), and I  run  spell  myself  to  check.    This is not that
difficult.   But  I would  be sooo ticked off by  something which starts
another emacs for  me to  "correct" the spelling  of something which  is
correct in the first place, meaning  another five minutes of aggravation
I don't need.  If this ever appears on our system, I will simply not use
it  until  I   have  fixed   it  to  get  around  this.     As  for  the
$home/author_copy   idea,  if   that  is   implemented,  I   will   make
$home/author_copy  a soft  link to /dev/null.  No, probably not; I might
fix that one too.

     Please, software people, at  the very  least  give us a nice way to
turn  it  off  (eg a flag in .newsrc or .postnewsrc or something).   Not
something we have to give every time we want to post something.

     By the  way,  here is  what spell  complains about in this  posting
(everything above the first of these lines):

cruft	dave	dev	eddie	emacs	followup	lsuc.UUCP
mbox	mdf	newsrc	osu	Pnews	postnews	postnewsrc
sooo

     All of the above are correct,  in that  they  should  stand as they
are.  I would really  hate to  have  some program  try to be smart about
those and tell me I had to "correct" them.  'Nuff said.
-- 
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