[Info-vax] Unpleasant Disk Shadowing Surprise

[George Cornelius]

In article <57ydnVnoreMKCwrTnZ2dnUVZ_vmdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> On 10/13/2011 12:45 PM, Bob Koehler wrote:

>>     Double typo for "someone pull".

> The Thunderbird Mail/News client has built-in spell checking.  You might 
> find it useful!  I do!

Ah, yes.  A brief read of the local newspaper makes it clear that
their reporters are in the mode of "it passed the spellchecker, so
it must be right!"  As always, automate something and people think
they can stop thinking.

Oh, and I see I should have proofread some posts recently (misspelled
Ken Olsen's and Steve Jobs' names in the same post, for example). My
excuse is that I was using a Linux (actually Knoppix) environment
an rxvt-derived  'improvement' over xterm obtained by stripping it
down into a useless VT emulation.  So I felt lucky just getting the
post off, much less getting it right.

'Course it couldn't have been that I should have been using reading
glasses when I posted.  How could that possibly be necessary?

George