spelling, was: Re: please help with bind 9.1.2

Keith Watson Kwatson at smed.2y.net
Sat May 4 16:45:43 EDT 2002


Um, so B i l, when did you change your name?

On 11:21 AM, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>      Old Bil?  I remind you again that I'm three whole months younger than
> you are. <great big grin>
> 
>    I'm not such a stickler for spelling, but as chuck points out, the 
> synth is 
> much more pleasant to listen to when there aren't spellos in the text.  
> Creative misspelling can be lots of fun such as when you refer to a 
> machine 
> with two operating systems as "d u e l" boot, or when more than a few of 
> us call that other OS "w i n d o z e".
> 
>      I have an Audapter.  It can even tell that a certain bloke from
> down-under writes the letter U instead of spelling out the word "y o u".  
> I'm not advocating that folks learn to spell, heck, I never did.  But
> modern mailers make it so easy to fix the errors almost automatically.  I
> can second what Chuck says about how running the spelchecker often makes
> it run faster. <grin>
> 
> 
> 
>           73.
>           Bill
> 
> 
> On Sat, 4 May 2002, Ann Parsons wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Now, old Bill, I fully admit that these isn't spelled like cheese,
> > even though it sounds like it ought to be.  However, unless there's an
> > extreme blooper like the poster who assured a budding concern that
> > their registry personnel must be on "autopilate", I think we can
> > interpret pretty well.  I do agree that folks should use spell
> > checkers, but since I don't myself, at least not within email msgs, I
> > can't throw any stones.  The walls of my house are made of glass.  
> > 
> > Ann P.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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