On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, bill pointon wrote:
> this is not a reply to any particular message but to the thread as a
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> teachers -- i mean come on people - form follows function - or at least
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> it has for the last 30 years since marshal mcluhan - if you cant
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> lexicon of the english language is it worth a diatribe -- i tend to
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> ignore capitalization and punctuation also - save for the generic
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> pause -- and if you cant decipher my messages is it perhaps because of a
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> failure in the reader rather than the writer ? i really dont care ----
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> ps -- i am not a warez dood - dont own a cell phone - and have never
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