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Subject:ADMIN: Re: Summary of re: Hey knock it off From:Eric Ray <ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com> To:Donkeyxote -at- aol -dot- com Date:Thu, 06 Apr 2000 20:10:45 -0600
Donkeyxote -at- aol -dot- com wrote:
> Congratulations, all--you found the typos in my original message. But
> it seems that my points (that sloppy writing hurts all of us--and
> that a lot of the mistakes I've seen on this list are not typos) were lost.
I believe that's the object lesson here. Pedantic attention to
typos etc. in other people's messages pretty well kills off the
actual points to be made.
This is the final word on the topic--moving on to other stuff....