-=> Bj”rn Felten wrote to Michiel van der Vlist <=-

   MvdV> You claim you actually do "editing". So you should have
   MvdV> noticed the deviation and "edited" it.

 BF>    Of course I should have. But when it comes to contributions
 BF> from some of the major ones, I tend to just take a short glance
 BF> at it. It usually is perfectly done so I trust it to be perfect
 BF> as usual.

So you just ASSumed that it was correct.  Usually a mistake.

 BF>    Just as I missed your automated contribution, in the midst of
 BF> one new every week, not so long ago, where in an ideal world, I
 BF> should have noticed the longer than 70 chars/line error.

Seems like long line(s) would have been quite obvious.

 BF>    I'm just a human being, performing a job without pay (and very
 BF> little appreciation) for soon to be 20 years. If you want a
 BF> perfect editor on the job, you probably have to pay up big time.
 BF> In the meantime you'll have to accept a total catastrophe like
 BF> the one with a few miscoded apostrophises.

But are you really "editing" anything?  Or do you just do a couple 
of clicks on your Windows system and various utilities/scripts 
cobble together what passes for the FidoNews?  No real human 
interaction required.



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