From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 7 04:42:43 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2187816A404 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 04:42:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from mail-in-11.arcor-online.net (mail-in-11.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.51]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0CA013C457 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 04:42:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.16]) by mail-in-11.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C99182093EB for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 02:39:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (mail-in-06.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.46]) by mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD4A7ABEB7 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 02:39:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (dslb-088-066-060-103.pools.arcor-ip.net [88.66.60.103]) by mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A34FD2C898A for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 02:39:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.13.8/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l370dExr054417 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 02:39:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailnull@kemoauc.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l370dEgD054416 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 02:39:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailnull) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 00:39:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <461130D7.8030500@daleco.biz> <200704030722.l337MGDN045044@lurza.secnetix.de> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Terry Lamber's "Mr. Bullet Mr. Foot" quote... X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 04:42:43 -0000 Oliver Fromme wrote: > Don't use spell checkers. Most of the time they break the > spelling instead of fixing it. Spell-checkers are useful for pointing out casual typos and frequent misspellings ("recieve", "seperate", "occured") or helping you with those words you never manage to get right (u-b-i-q-u-i-t-o-u-s). The problem is people who have so little confidence in their own spelling ability that they blindly trust the program. I've never bothered with spell-checkers either, but now that Firefox has sort of forced one on me, I don't mind it. Now, if we could automagically switch to the correct language... > Personally I prefer to spend half a minute reading again through > what I wrote before sending it. Yes, but that suffers from the effect that you probably read what you wanted to write, not necessarily what's actually on the page. Happens to me all the time. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de