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Subject:Re: Summary of re: Hey knock it off From:Peter <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com> To:Donkeyxote -at- aol -dot- com Date:Sun, 09 Apr 2000 11:02:03 -0400
Donkeyxote -at- aol -dot- com wrote:
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> 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.
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> Also lost, apparently, was my deliberately gentle and conciliatory tone.
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It's the lemming syndrome. see http://www.despair.com/demotivators/connot.html
Enjoy.
--
Peter
Arguing with an engineer is like mud wrestling with a pig.
You soon realize they both enjoy it.
