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- Subject: Re: EXECUTION of DECUS Standards
- Message-ID: <18DEC199216512824@carat.arizona.edu>
- From: jms@carat.arizona.edu (A virtually vegetal non-entity)
- Date: 18 Dec 1992 16:51 MST
- Reply-To: jms@Arizona.EDU
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- In article <1992Dec18.150244.4707@spcvxb.spc.edu>, killeen@spcvxb.spc.edu
- (Jeff Killeen) writes, for 248 full lines, ...
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- Jeff, if your goal is to squash discussion through sheer number of words, I
- think that you're very close to success.
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- On the other hand, if you want to convince your audience, you're going to
- have to do a lot better than this. 10 screens is not debate; it's ranting.
- Go back, think over your argument, and express it simply and succinctly.
- While you're at it, take some time to spell and grammar/punctuation check
- your article. This tome/missive is both too long and too incoherent for a
- rational reply. There's nothing we're talking about here which requires
- 30 blocks of refutation.
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- Consider this exercise: the New York times has given you 500 words to
- make your case. How would you state it?
-
- jms
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- Joel Snyder - DECUS Standards and Newsletter dude | Email: jms@Arizona.EDU
- DECUS is for people who are overweight or are underweight. Come join us!
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