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From: dave@galaxia.Newport.RI.US (David H. Brierley)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: posting privileges
Message-ID: <651@galaxia.Newport.RI.US>
Date: 12 Mar 89 19:26:28 GMT
References: <7502@pyr.gatech.EDU> <205@eplrx7.UUCP> <6205@columbia.edu>
Reply-To: dave@galaxia.Newport.RI.US (David H. Brierley)
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In article <6205@columbia.edu> simon@copper.UUCP (Thor Simon) writes:
>
>  As a 13-year old I, by the estimation of the original article, must
>necessecarily (sp?) be *worse* than all of these "Evilllll" undergrads.  I
...
>One last thing:
>Your attack on another poster's misplacement of a comma most certainly
>did *not* show proper net etiquitte.  As I recall, the document I read
>on the subject stated that such "grammar flames" were among strictly
>no-nos.  If you're so concerned about proper behavior, show some yourself.

I had already contributed to this discussion once and I had no intentions of
contributing again but I felt this article deserved some attention.

Assuming that this article is sincere, it should put a lot of you to shame.
The article was well written, grammatically correct, and only contained two
spelling errors (at least, only two that I noticed).  The first spelling
error, "necessarily", is a hard word to spell (I usually have to look it up)
and the second word, "etiquette", is not a word I would expect most 13 year
olds to know.  I have seen numerous postings by so-called "professionals"
who are 10 to 20 years older than this person and some of them are so bad
that I had to read them two or three times to figure out what the poster
was trying to say.

I think that this particular person really personifies the stand that I, and
several others, have taken saying that posting privileges cannot be assigned
or denied using broad categorical labels such as "undergrad".  These issues
must be decided on an individual basis.
-- 
David H. Brierley
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