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Skriven 2012-02-28 10:21:12 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 26010 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
Ärende: Fidonews Vol 29 No 08 February 20, 2012
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27 Feb 12 19:31, mark lewis wrote to Björn Felten:

 ml> i rarely capitalize anything but you know this...

Caps are used to indicate the beginning of a sentence. Caps are used to
spell a noun, etc.. The least you could do is cap his name.

 BF>> I find it hard to believe, even if I know you have been hardly hit
 BF>> with tragedies in life, more than almost any of the rest of us.

 ml> "hardly" or "hardy"????

Reverse it; you have been hit hard with tragedies.

 ml>> i'm serious because i've been pulling my mail from the backbone star
 ml>> configuration since john souvestre first became a connection point
 ml>> in that distribution system... i had to move from john's system to
 ml>> another one because he was having so much traffic and what i was
 ml>> pulling at 2400 baud was taking too long...

He meant that you should split this long treatise into seperate
paragraphs. The following has nothing else to do with your trials and
tribulations with Souvestre, for instance.

[how far back it was]

 ml>> it was a few months later that i purchased a zyxel 16.8k modem...
 ml>> this should give you an idea of how far back i can personally relate
 ml>> to the distribution system in question...

You've said all your'e going to say on this subject, split it here.

[distribution system competition]

 ml>>  even when there were two "competing" star distribution systems in
 ml>> north america (and with two linking nodes between them) i do not
 ml>> ever recall missing any echo mail at all... every once in a while i
 ml>> would see someone commenting on such but do not recall having that
 ml>> problem myself... maybe once or twice but still, we're talking about
 ml>> a long long period of time of excellent distribution...

Subject change, split it here.

 ml>> i was part of one of those distribution systems at one time and
 ml>> there was also the WWB that came along which i also fed off of...
 ml>> the WWB went away after some years as did one of the north american
 ml>> distribution systems... even with all the switching and flopping
 ml>> about of other systems in those distribution systems, i've never had
 ml>> a major loss of echomail from the distribution system i've been
 ml>> connected to...

Another subject change, split it.

 ml>> i've only ever changed my uplink connection maybe at most 7 or 8
 ml>> times in all these years... the only time that my system might have
 ml>> been said to experiance a "loss" in echomail would have been in this
 ml>> area and only in recent times when the north american distribution
 ml>> did what many of its users asked it to do... that being to break the
 ml>> link in this echo so that the fighting would stop and we would not
 ml>> have to continue to read it after years of folk asking for it to
 ml>> stop over and over and over again... even i asked for it to stop and
 ml>> that got no where other than more of the same... deity knows i tried
 ml>> asking in several different ways all to no avail... yes, i know that
 ml>> i used to be a party to the fighting type traffic but that was also
 ml>> years ago...

 BF>>    I wish that you could have split up the above in readable
 BF>> paragraphs.

 ml> split it yourself, if you need to... it is one long and quite
 ml> readable paragraph to me... where would you have split it and why??

At each and every sub-article that you brought up...

I made this type of change to the FNS echo rules when elected moderator
and everybody who couldn't understand reasonable paragraph changes,
complained because I changed the rules. I changed the sentence and
paragraph structure, but didn't change any rule. BTW, that was one of the
things I 'promised' to do during my campaign as moderator.

 BF>>    As it's posted now, I bet that not a single soul would try to
 BF>> read past the first line.

 ml> that's not my problem if they have such a short attention span and
 ml> cannot read a simple paragraph of text in a conversation :(

I skipped over it the first time I saw it. Then when you challenged Björn
to edit it for himself, I showed you how easy it is to split up a long,
long diatribe into your past history that would have been graded a D in a
'beginning' English class in junior high school. I could have gone on
grading it for non-use of caps, but I know by your style that you're
handicapped and can't type with both hands. And heaven knows you lost the
caps key in some back room of your abode.


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