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- From: fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: The grammar idiot. (was Re: AN ABJECT APPOLOGY)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.224647.12303@compu.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 22:46:47 GMT
- References: <47jmx+-@dixie.com> <1992Jul26.225147.6406@compu.com> <rzlmxgh@dixie.com>
- Organization: CompuData Inc.
- Lines: 61
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- jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
-
- >>PS Sorry - I just had to get this off my chest. That sig has been bothering
- >>me long enough now.
-
- >You must have a very boring life.
-
- Only on occasion when really strange postings come across my screen.
-
- >I started to reply to this bozo in Email but I decided he needed to
- >be addressed in public.
- >Stan is nearly blind. I've never asked him but I assume this qualifies
- >as legally blind.
- >He works at the computer by placing his eye about 1 inch from the monitor.
-
- That's really too bad. Obviously none of us bozos out here have omniscience
- and only assume that what we read is from normally competent people. De
- Armond (bozo #1 in the crowd) described Stan Brown as extremely competent etc
- etc. Nowhere was there a word that the man is blind or otherwise limited.
- Not being able to see what you're doing does throw a curve into anyone's
- activities.
-
-
- >When he works on something that matters such as code or documentation, he
- >spends a LOT of time getting it right and then has someone proof it.
- >Your self-iportance notwithstanding, the net does not rate that level
- >of care. Most of us are capable of reading around the errors. Why
- >don't you try to learn?
-
- My self-importance means nothing. Yet, when I continually see the cities of
- Atlanta and Chattanooga misspelled in a signature, I tend to start wondering
- whether the writer uses a similar lack of care in his debugging and problem
- solving as when he was creating his own signature.
-
- >After watching him casually play with Dixie, I was absolutely
- >amazed when he delivered high quality code to me in not much more time
- >than it would have taken me. 'Nuff said.
-
- I can't imagine how one can do anything 'casually' 1" from the screen
- especially play.
-
- As far as the net not rating a readable post, I would disagree. It is the only
- way we get to know each other here. How we speak says much about 'what' we
- speak. In the case of a blind poster that is obviously an exception.
-
- Under such circumstances, some message that the writer has a visual impairment
- would have created the kind of understanding John de Armond is looking for.
- He would have done well to make that point earlier rather than create a wild
- attack against Dell which may have created a permanent barrier to
- communication with Dell for all users of the net.
-
- Besides, there are such things as spell checkers that would make a post a
- little more readable regardless of the writers problems. A little concern for
- the net may also prove to provide better results as the idea obviously is to
- communicate as effectively as possible.
-
- Now I hope we can all get back to work and put this Dell/postscript matter
- behind us.
-
- Fred
-
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