Spelling issues

[The Ranger]

Steve questioned my statement in message news: [e-mail]...

It's simple enough: those people that do not have English as a second (or greater) language, post messages rife with errors (e.g. 'nad,' 'te,' 'sa,' etc.), purport to leave spelling errors on purpose, think that a message difficult to read is "good enough because 'everyone will get it'," or don't care to take the few extra seconds to check their messages prior to a worldwide distribution so that they present the best possible communication are lazy. They enjoy being considered buffoons but they're not stupid... That minority that will not install -- or use -- a spell-checker are stupid.

The Ranger

ObEdibleGarden: My dwarf mandarin orange tree is producing fruit like mad after I decided to stop coddling it. Go figure.

[Steve]

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Well, that wasn't so simple and I still don't see why they are "mutually exclusive". Don't worry about it. We are only prolonging this thread far past what it deserves. Don't feel that you need to reply unless you really want to.

Steve

[Frogleg]

It is obviously of some interest to several/many/a number of people. An unmoderated group frequently wanders off-topic. Is there a moderated group for strictly edible gardening topics? Then someone will filter extraneous posts. Rec.food.cooking is extremely chatty. Rec.food.recipes is moderated and all business -- nothing but recipe requests and answers. Many unmoderated groups *are* a little like chatrooms. How does a discussion of sugar-snap peas evolve into bicycle repair? The same way a group of non-virtual people starts out with a public highway agenda and gets to contemporary jazz. The threads generally die out after a while (unless they're for or against cats), and new topics are usually on-topic.

[Mac]

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Please don't top-post. It makes it much harder to follow the conversation, and is considered rude on usenet.

Also, I'm serious. Until you can fix the way your lines break, you have absolutely no business criticizing anyone's spelling. It is far more difficult to follow your postings than those with even a large number of misspellings -- particularly phonetic mispellings. If you are too dim-witted or unresourceful to solve the problem with Netscape, then try another news reader. I see lots of posts from Netscape users which are not butchered the way yours are, so I know it is possible to fix the problem.

Mac

[Mac]

Well, you may be safe from all the Internet Explorer and Outlook exploits, but unsecured linux boxes are pretty commonly compromised, too. I used to be responsible for a firewall at work, and almost everytime someone port-scanned us or tried to connect to various non-existant services, the source was a totally unsecured Red Hat 5.x or 6.x system. I understand Red Hat default installations are much more secure, now, but at the time it was pitiful.

Mac

[BlackShadow]

newsgroup

You are the ridiculous, sour faced old trollop who first responded by calling the OP a liar and claiming that no newsreader/browser, including the OP's had a spell checker. Your idiotic claim, which was quickly refuted, is what got the thread started, so stop throwing stones at those who responded. Threads about how to post and read, and the features of various newsreaders or browsers are quite valid topics. Pull your withered old head in and stop being such an asshole!

chat-room

????

Grade school drop-out eh?

BlackShadow

BTW, trim your posts you tired old tart!

[Larry Blanchard]

Ah, but I'm a senior with a limited income, living on a @!#$%! dial-up line :-).

I ran Linux for a while (Slackware, kernel 0.97 at first, IIRC), but switched to windows for various compatability reasons. Now that I'm retired, I'm planning to switch back when I get a round tuit :-). I have an older version of TurboLinux on my drive, but never really liked the way it was set up. I liked Slackware and will probably grab the latest of that distribution when I do switch.

[Anonymous]

Larry, you are a PRIME candidate for Fedora. I got on the Linux bus at RH

5.2 and off the Windows pedicab at Win '98. While I would recommend Lycoris for people who have never used Linux before, Fedora is probably right up your alley.

It does my heart good to see that people on this newsgroup are at least aware of the possibility of using Linux. I've been using it exclusively for years and I've long awaited the day when I would see Linux discussed on a non-computer-centric forum such as this. Well, it's finally arrived.

My wife, a total non-geek, loves Linux. We both use Windows when absolutely necessary (we have ONE 'holdout' program that we rely on that keeps Win98 loaded on one desktop and dual-booted on the laptop), so it isn't that we hate Windows with any sort of religious fervor, it's just that Linux works much better for us than Windows ever did ... and for a small fraction of the expense.

I wish you happy gardening AND happy computing,

Chugga

[Larry Blanchard]

I never heard of it, but I'll do a Google as soon as I get done with the newsgroups.

Although I suspect that this forum may well have a percentage of computer types that exceeds that of the general population, if only because we're all online.

I started programming when computers had vacuum tubes and spent a lot of time doing process control stuff, which tends to teach you a lot about the innards :-).

Most places I worked until recently wouldn't buy an operating system (minicomputer) unless they could get the source code so they could modify it :-).