From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx0.inoc.net ([64.246.130.30]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 173xDD-00065F-00 for ; Sat, 04 May 2002 06:56:23 -0400 Received: from hudson.valstar.net (cust8.as0-gtown.valstar.net [64.246.149.10]) by mx0.inoc.net (Vircom SMTPRS 5.2.204) with ESMTP id for ; Sat, 4 May 2002 06:56:24 -0400 Received: from localhost (hallenbeck@localhost) by hudson.valstar.net (8.11.4/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g44AuJx00422 for ; Sat, 4 May 2002 06:56:19 -0400 Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 06:56:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Hallenbeck To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: spelling, was: Re: please help with bind 9.1.2 In-Reply-To: <15571.48203.213206.694725@akp@eznet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi gang, I have never felt more like a retired school teacher than I have since this thread started! I have found that using a spellchecker routinely makes its use a lot more tolerable than just using it once or twice to see if it works or not. It is a little like defragging a disk. If you only do it once a month or once a year it takes forever. But if you run it in an autoexec.bat file (remember those?) so it runs on every system startup, you hardly notice it at all. I have configured my mail program to use an alternative editor implicitly (i.e., always, without my asking) and instead of specifying an actual editor, I specify a very simple script. That script first runs the editor I want to use, and immediately afterward, it runs the spell checker. So when I compose an email message and his the editor's exit key I find myself in the spell checker. I have learned to quit checking as soon as I get to any included messages. In addition to satisfying my own anal retentive tendencies, the nice thing about a well spelled message is that the voice synthesizer behaves much much better. Okay everybody, class dismissed! Chuck 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. > > -- Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck The Moon is Waning Crescent (49% of Full)