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From: Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca>
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Subject: Re: Style/Grammar/Writing Guidelines
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 01:31:21AM -0500, G. Adam Stanislav wrote:
> At 14:53 13-06-2001 -0700, Chern Lee wrote:
> >Reference to the reader as "you" is informal.  Changing this to "One" or
> >"The user" sounds very fitting to me.
> 
> Ouch! No, please no!
> 
> >Suggestions, please?

I like "we".  That is what Richard Stevens used, and I always liked
his tone.

Just my opinion.

Chad

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