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From: fritz@unocss.UUCP (Sharon O'Neil)
Newsgroups: soc.college,comp.edu
Subject: Re: Student and Course Integrity
Message-ID: <597@unocss.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 89 18:05:47 GMT
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> Well, I for one object to this.  I find that my writing skills are best
> supplemented by my vocabulary skills when I am able to use my access skills
> on as much of the English language as I know.  The meaning of the original
> poster, I suspect, was clear to nearly everyone else who read the message.

  Yes, the meaning of the original poster was probably clear to everyone else
who read the message, but that's not really any reason to excuse mistakes.
It's great that most people here can decipher a poorly phrased or poorly typed
message, but I would think that the computer would have made it easy for him 
to quickly check and edit his message.


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