[dragon] corruption

[Barry Kunz]

>From: TattooedSamurai at cs.com
>
>In a message dated 11/11/2002 12:18:40 PM Mountain Standard Time,
>qamar53 at hotmail.com writes:
>
><< you moron that's the entire point no one could understand your >message 
>maybe our minds are all too feeble for your great intellect >and we should  
>only subscribe to being simple card players for the >rest of our lives 
>instead of hope to fill in the shoes of someone so >intelligent like 
>yourself

>  Was that pretty funny?  I thought making fun of him in his own  speech 
>would be funny.  Oh well.
>
>  T. Scott Hadsall >>

That looked like fun.  Let me try.

yes very good who needs punctuation i only want intellegent peopl to 
uderstand waht eyem saying and only nonfeable brained persons will be able 
to decipher my point very funny


>********************* *thinks* * thinks* *realizes how pointless it is >to 
>argue with ignorance*

Winning an argument with ignorance as your main weapon can be very hard so 
yes I agree.  It hasn't been working for you so far.:)

>Hitomi Kenryoku

No one enjoys reading sloppy messages.  Being an English major should make 
the task of constructing a clean email message easy compared to other 
people.  The problem you're running into now is that the lack of punctuation 
is nullifying anything you might be trying to say because people don't want 
to take the time to understand what you're trying to say because you didn't 
take the time to present it in a manner that was easy to read.  Below is 
your response to Chaoist which I will now respond to;

>However this is not a personal letter, nor is it a serious informative 
> >piece of Rhetoric, thus i feel that is a waste my time to punctuate >and 
>capitalize my thoughts.

Problem number one is that these are now your written thoughts that your are 
sending to 239 non-digested members and 78 digested members.  If you don't 
punctuate and capitalize then all of those members will begin to think that 
it is a waste of their time to read your thoughts.

>I find it far more practical to block it. if your small feeble mind can not 
>handle that i am sorry.  I find it >easy to read a "block" (as you so 
>kindly put it) and know exactly >where the Proper punctuation, 
>capitalization, and spelling need to be.

Not everyone will find reading a block as practical as you think writing a 
block is.  You have to write for your audience.  Your audience is not 317 
English majors so they are not as adept as you might be at reading a block 
of text.  For a good portion of this list english is a second language and 
I'm sure they're having a hell of a time reading your posts.

>The thing with rhetoric dear sir is not if it is done well but if the 
> >meaning is being portrayed.

Right. And your meaning isn't being portrayed because your rhetoric is not 
done well.

Quality of posts are much more important than quantity of posts.

Please just honestly think about the things I've said.  I've got nothing 
against you personally.  I don't know you.  What I do know is that you've 
not put enough effort into communicating in a clear manner on this list and 
I'm only trying to help you see that you need to change that in order for 
the audience you are writing for to understand you or care about what you're 
trying to say.

Barry Kunz
Togashi Zembu
Herald of the New Dawn

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