1. Diskmag (First Call)
- Posted by Stephen Spencer <stephen.spencer at USA.NET>
May 03, 1998
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Last edited May 04, 1998
Right. I've been putting it off for long enough:
THE EUPHORIA DISKMAG
You may remember me ranting on about this a couple of months ago, but
now I've decided I'm definitely going to do it.
I've got my GCSEs (Exams at 16, for all you people not in the UK) over
the next two months, and I thought I'd give you all this time to write
your articles, jokes, anecdotes, tutorials, FAQs, etc, then I'll compile
them all once the exams are over.
The deadline is 20th of June, so get scribbling!
--
Stephen Spencer
stephen.spencer at usa.net
http://members.xoom.com/sspencer
p.s. I might be pestering a few of the important people on this list
with mini-questionnares in a while, so watch out!
2. Re: Diskmag (First Call)
- Posted by Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen <nieuwen at XS4ALL.NL>
May 03, 1998
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Last edited May 04, 1998
Dit is een meerdelig bericht in MIME-indeling.
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>Right. I've been putting it off for long enough:
> THE EUPHORIA DISKMAG
>You may remember me ranting on about this a couple of months ago, but
>now I've decided I'm definitely going to do it.
>I've got my GCSEs (Exams at 16, for all you people not in the UK) over
>the next two months, and I thought I'd give you all this time to write
>your articles, jokes, anecdotes, tutorials, FAQs, etc, then I'll compile
>them all once the exams are over.
>The deadline is 20th of June, so get scribbling!
I had this article of mine laying around here.
I wrote it after seeing some of ignorant reviews of Euphoria by for example
C-Net.
They reviewer obviously didn't give Euphoria much chance.
Here's a review that does list all of Euphoria's elegance, althrough it is a
bit long.
It is attached as HTML.
Please people, add and chance as much as you like. It is suppose to be clear
and complete.
It sounds very objective but it is indeed a very subjective article.
It is written in co-operation with MS Grammer checking with all options
enabled. It even complained about starting sentences with 'but' and writing
stuff in the passive form. (ugly)
So I suppose, for once, the grammer and spelling are ok, unlike with this
message 
Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen
nieuwen at xs4all.nl
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3. Re: Diskmag (First Call)
> I had this article of mine laying around here.
> I wrote it after seeing some of ignorant reviews of Euphoria by for example
> C-Net.
> They reviewer obviously didn't give Euphoria much chance.
>
> Here's a review that does list all of Euphoria's elegance, althrough it is a
> bit long.
> It is attached as HTML.
> Please people, add and chance as much as you like. It is suppose to be clear
> and complete.
> It sounds very objective but it is indeed a very subjective article.
>
> It is written in co-operation with MS Grammer checking with all options
> enabled. It even complained about starting sentences with 'but' and writing
> stuff in the passive form. (ugly)
> So I suppose, for once, the grammer and spelling are ok, unlike with this
> message
You can't trust a Microsoft grammar checker. 
You probably should not start a sentence with 'but' in the type of
document you are writing; that type of usage is for fiction. The
same is also true for the passive form.
(Hey, I've got the credentials allowing me to say this kind of stuff.
When I took the ACT, I got a perfect score on both the
usage/mechanics of English and rhetorical skills.)
Regards,
Michael Bolin
