[off topic and out of hand] Re: Noise levels increasing and have become deafening

From: Athanasios Kotsenos <a.kotsenos_at_rca.ac.uk>
Date: Wed Oct 28 04:54:25 1998

>Not desiring to continue the thread, but:
i guess we have 2?

>This is not IRC, it is a mailing list.
whats irc got to do with anything?

>There is no need to use the
>silly little abbreviations designed to "speed up" on-line chat and
>the typing of same.
theyre not silly
what is _really_ silly is acronyms (and as i say - iha: i hate acronyms)
how am i supposed to decipher AMIOKOAI or whatever that stuff some of u
write is?
im not gonna look up in a acronym list everytime i see this stuff

>Use English or as close an approximation as you can.
thats exactly what im doing

>Capital letters help as well as punctuation -- a carriage return
>is not expected to be the end of a sentence, especially when the next
>line starts in lower case. My best estimate is that the quoted message
>took me at least three times as long to parse as it should have.
oh im really sorry it troubled u so
but i really other problems here r much more serious
Received on Wed Oct 28 1998 - 04:54:25 GMT