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- From: adams@spss.com (Steve Adams)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: The ongoing jokes on talk.abortion
- Message-ID: <root.727627667@spssig>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 14:47:47 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.023357.28403@csus.edu> <root.727512141@spssig> <1993Jan21.053313.4979@rotag.mi.org>
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- kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
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- >In article <root.727512141@spssig> adams@spss.com (Steve Adams) writes:
- >>chaneysa@nextnet.csus.edu (Stephen A Chaney) writes:
- >>
- >>
- >>>people like james g. keegan jr. who can't find the SHIFT,
- >>>CAPS or CAPSLOCK keys
- >>
- >>I vote this the greatest stretch to try a flame yet this year. I suppose
- >>Stephen's never heard of ee cummings?
- >
- >You mean the poet who actually had something _meaningful_ to say in all-
- >lowercase? As opposed to the Usenetter whose dearth of capitalization
- >accompanies an even greater dearth of content? Well, I've heard of both
- >of them. What, pray tell, do they have to do with each other?
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- The point being, not defending either cummings or keegan, is that flaming
- for lack of capitalization is, well, inane.
-
- -Steve
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