[Info-vax] Unpleasant Disk Shadowing Surprise

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 10/14/2011 5:25 PM, George Cornelius wrote:
> 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

I'm seventy and have been wearing bifocals for a good many years now!

A spelling checker is handy for slips of the mind and/or the fingers.

It's clear from reading mail/news that far too many flunked English 
Composition.  What really bothers me is that most of our members for 
whom English is a second language, write better English than many of
the native speakers!