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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;">We are all a bit stir
crazy from staying at home. There's a lot more traffic on some email lists than "normal". Several people, myself included, have responded too quickly. Here are a couple of suggestions.<br></div>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Carefully read the
entire thread of conversation. On multiple occasions someone else
has already answered your question.
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><br></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Type messages into a file. Set it aside for a couple of hours. Then
re-read the entire thread and consider what you have to contribute to
the discussion. Or just proof read your message before sending.<br></div>
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On Friday, April 17, 2020, 12:19:09 PM PDT, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div>Quoting Nick Moffitt (<a shape="rect" href="mailto:nick@zork.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">nick@zork.net</a>):<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> I would argue that if it is that difficult for you to read, then<br clear="none">> perhaps you have a reading comprehension problem of some sort.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Distinguo: Personally (and not speaking for Michael, to whom you<br clear="none">replied directly), I wasn't saying things like 'dont' and 'tv' are<br clear="none">difficult to read, just annoying and suggestive of the poster not caring<br clear="none">to write with _even_ the degree of care that is low-normal on mailing<br clear="none">lists.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Obviously, nobody is expected to write perfect sonnet-like compositions<br clear="none">for mailing lists. It'd be too damned much work, for starters.<br clear="none">However, there are degrees to these things, and very often not caring<br clear="none">about such details of writing correlates strongly with not caring about<br clear="none">details of thinking -- e.g., a history of posting drivel to a mailing<br clear="none">list so that other people will serve free of charge as the poster's<br clear="none">'Snopes' and debunk it, outsourcing the job of thinking.<div class="ydpb94c672eyqt4962150456" id="ydpb94c672eyqtfd69377"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">conspire mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br clear="none"></div></div>
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