PLEASE READ! H-F Netiquette Document

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On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, richardm@cd.com (Richard Masoner) wrote:
>
>I've put the H-F Netiquette Guide on the web at
>http://www.prairienet.org/~rmasoner/netiquette.txt
>for easy access to all with Internet access.
>Please especially note ITEM 11 below about poisonous posts.
>
>Richard M.
>
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> 7.  Has the message been spell-checked for errors?  
>
>Sometimes, the thought-finger coordination doesn't produce perfectly 
spelled
>documents sent to the list.  We've all endured our share of typographical
>errors in reading and writing.  Is there a spell checking function built 
into
>the emailing program?  Or could the document be produced and then checked 
by
>invoking an spelling utility?  It might be in your best interest to find
>out.  Spelling errors imply that the composer may seem to be ... "not 
smart."
>I realize, that in all cases this isn't possible.  But I can only think
>that correcting the spelling errors by re-reading the message before 
resending
>it can only help.  I've heard that a good way to do that is to read the
>document from bottom to top while reading left to right.  That might make
>you look harder at what was just written so you might not miss anything.
>
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>I recommend you keep a copy of this document as a tool of measure to judge 
>what you are about to write and send to the recipients of the Higher-Fire 
>list.  
>
>
Might I also add (a pet peeve of mine):

7a. Is your post grammatically and typographically correct (or at least 
close)?

Does your post say alot a lot?  Are your sentences run-on (and on)?  Are 
there two spaces after periods?  How about breaking those 40 lines into a 
few paragraphs?  (it is much easier on everyone's lexical parsing 
mechanisms...)

And above all, nobody RITE LIK3 BIFF. =)

Brad

Bradley E. Young   Chief Bottle Washer
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Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
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