he said she said

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≪	Hint, Peter: *read* before *typing*. ≫ --Rene

That's advice that more than one subscriber might heed.

Lee Hickling posts info on KeyView, mentioning that "it comes
with the Adobe Acrobat Reader freeware," and gets a response
asking if the Acrobat Reader isn't freeware from a subscriber
who'd just huffed that "people have a reciprocal obligation
to be precise and not impose." Jane Stein explains interestingly
why she and Judy Stein must spell check "each transcript file
`by hand,' giving a manual bye to all the stuttered double words
and weirdo constructions," and can't use any of the alternatives
xyWrite offers like spell checking to a file. She is then advised
to spell check to a file. When Judy responds that that option
is closed, her reply is quoted omitting a key phrase, and
yet another option Jane had said was closed is recommended.

I enthusiastically endorse selective quotation over lazy dumping
of an entire referent, but paraphrasing and omission of quotes
altogether may ultimately waste more of everybody's time.
A verbatim dump at least makes careless reading obvious
at once to all. Short of that, Rene's advice applies broadly. 	--a

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