[ILUG] ms word not needed to write word documents

[Richard Eibrand]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 12:58:19 +0000, Barry O'Donovan <ilug at ihl.ucd.ie> wrote:
>
> I don't mean to appear anal here, but if you are going to e-mail Pat
> Kenny as you did, at least make your e-mail somewhat coherent
> ("requirement for word written application"??). A spell check, grammer
> and punctuation wouldn't go astray either.
>
> Apologies for my anal-ity,
> B.
>

Barry,

I apologise for the mistakes in my email as I normally do my best to avoid 
such errors, but 'in my defense' ;-), I was in a tough spot.
The reasons are as follows,

1) I was in our car, with a number of dogs going crazy in the back of the 
car (no I wasnt driving...)
2) I was typing the email on my mobile phone, over a gprs connection to my 
yahoo email account (T9 input can be a little akward at times when you are 
in a hurry)
3) I was more concerned in getting the email sent in time for PK to read 
it out on the show, to keep it within the context of the show, and the 
letter he read out.

Just as a matter of interest, did anybody else email the show proposing 
alternatives?
My only intention was to highlight alternatives, and also state the point 
that I agreed with the comments mentioned in the aforementioned letter.

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 14:27:43 +0000, Barry O'Donovan wrote
> A fair point but on my defense I neither asked for nor expected 
> errorless posts to ILUG. It was in regard to his e-mail to Pat Kenny 
> that I took issue (in which he involved us (ILUG) by CC'ing the list).

I involved ILUG (by CC'ing the email to the list), as I thought it might 
start a discussion, which it seems to have done, and also to [perhaps 
naïvely] help promote the ILUG, and propose alternatives to M$ products. 
Granted a fully gramatically correct, spellchecked, nicely formated email 
would have been better, but, as circumstances warranted, this was not to 
be.

Regards,

R




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