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Skriven 2012-02-29 12:04:07 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
  Kommentar till text 26088 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
Ärende: Fidonews Vol 29 No 08 February 20, 2012
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 ml> i rarely capitalize anything but you know this...

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

why? i don't even cap my own name... or anyone elses, for that matter... maybe
a couple of times over the last decade but... so what makes him or anyone else
so special that they require their name to be camelcased??

 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"????

 RW> Reverse it; you have been hit hard with tragedies.

yes... i think i know what he was trying to say but wanted to clarify it by
asking if he meant another word and gave it as an example... no big deal,
really... i hope no one takes it as an attack 'cause it wasn't...

 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...

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

 RW> [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...

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

ahhh... thank you... i didn't view it as individual subjects... it was one talk
in my mind... thanks... maybe i will go back and rewrite it with the breaks you
denote in it...

[trim]

 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??

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

as i wrote above, it was all one talk in my mind :?

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

 RW> I skipped over it the first time I saw it. Then when you challenged
 RW> Björn to edit it for himself, I showed you how easy it is to split
 RW> up a long, long diatribe into your past history 

thank you again...

 RW> that would have been graded a D in a 'beginning' English class in 
 RW> junior high school. I could have gone on grading it for non-use of 
 RW> caps, but I know by your style that you're handicapped and can't 
 RW> type with both hands. And heaven knows you lost the caps key in 
 RW> some back room of your abode.

 :LOL: :)

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