Shawn writes:
> It can in fact be detrimental for non-Native speakers, because if the
> spell checker suggests a word that is not at all what you meant, you
> might go "oh, is that what it is? OK." and pick something bizarre.
That's because most spelling checkers know too many words.
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On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 10:15, Daniel Toffetti wrote:
> > > 4. Spell check.
> >
> > i think stipulating a spell check would impose too much on many
> > non-native english speakers whose participation on this list is very
> > valuable,
> The spellchecker is pretty, but hardly useful enough as to re
begin Daniel Toffetti quotation:
>
> The spellchecker is pretty, but hardly useful enough as to require it
> to post to the list.
It can in fact be detrimental for non-Native speakers, because if the
spell checker suggests a word that is not at all what you meant, you
might go "oh, is that what
On Thursday 11 April 2002 10:51, Kent West wrote:
> >>>1. no spam
> >>>
> >>> 2. text-only (no html, ms-tnef, etc.)
> >>>
> >>> 3. wrap text
>
> 4. English preferred.
I do agree, but anyway most of the messages are posted in english. The
few that are not in english are from first-timers. I ofte
> > 4. Spell check.
>
> i think stipulating a spell check would impose too much on many
> non-native english speakers whose participation on this list is very
> valuable, and the purpose of the rules is to enable harmonious
> inclusion rather than exclusion. apart from that, misspelled words
> are
begin Patrick Kirk quotation:
>
> Does that exculde the hotmail yahoo whatever browser-based mailer
> people?
Not any more than it does now; html is already against the list rules.
Hotmail and Yahoo can both be set to send plain-text mail. If someone
chooses to do differently, they have only
begin ben quotation:
>
>4. reply to the list only, unless specifically requested to cc:
This can happen because of a buggy mail client, or because the original
sender has set message flags to cause this to happen, which again can be
because of a buggy mail client or a deliberate configuratio
1. no spam
2. text-only (no html, ms-tnef, etc.)
3. wrap text
4. English preferred.
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On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 12:46, ben wrote:
> On Thursday 11 April 2002 04:10 am, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> > On 11 Apr 2002, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> > > Does that exculde the hotmail yahoo whatever browser-based mailer
I'm pretty easy about all this. Its all a lot more reasonable than
writing to
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, ben wrote:
>4. reply to the list only, unless specifically requested to cc:
>
> this has as much to do with conserving bandwidth as does eliminating html,
> etc. i read the list. i don't need duplicates. let those who do request them.
This is easy enough to procmail out.
On Thursday 11 April 2002 04:10 am, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> On 11 Apr 2002, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> > Does that exculde the hotmail yahoo whatever browser-based mailer
> > people?
>
> No. They don't send in HTML. Though I would discourage anybody from
> using Hotmail as it's owned by the enem
On 11 Apr 2002, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> Does that exculde the hotmail yahoo whatever browser-based mailer
> people?
No. They don't send in HTML. Though I would discourage anybody from
using Hotmail as it's owned by the enemy, and Yahoo due to spamming
practices.
> ms-tnef is not a mail format.
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 11:16, ben wrote:
> On Thursday 11 April 2002 02:39 am, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> > Hi all,
I didn't say force people to use filters. I said that if you don't like
something, it makes sense to filter it and things like ms-tnef are
particularly easy to filter.
> formatting in m
On Thursday 11 April 2002 02:39 am, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My posts on this topic generated more heat than light - apologies to
> anyone offended.
none taken, although your more recent suggestion involving list-customized
filters seems like way too much interference in the freedom that
On Thursday 11 April 2002 12:53 am, Rich Rudnick wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 00:35, ben wrote:
> > On Wednesday 10 April 2002 11:54 pm, Simon Hepburn wrote:
> > > ben wrote:
> > > > thanks for the input. so, on attachments, none? some?
> > >
> > > If I'm helping people out with, say X problems f
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