On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 00:04 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > No *if* about it Tom, his grammer needs all the help it can get. > Which leads me to an observation based on 69 years of living, and now > about 20 years of interneting. > > That observation is that for the most part, unless there is a real > 'language problem' on the part of the poster, the level of written > english here far exceeds that presently being published by our > leading nationwide daily newspapers. Many of the posters here had to > learn english in order to carry on a meaningfull conversation > covering the technical issues of today. Not for nothing, but I believe the original poster was NOT a native speaker. -- Aaron Gaudio agaudio @ eng.mc.xerox.com 585-422-6876 madcap @ irc://rockhopper.eng.mc.xerox.com OpenPGP fingerprint: 74B3 1018 08EB 1B3F E7C7 B944 11B1 E0C3 949C 8906 "Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots." - Jonathan Nolan, /Memento Mori/