From:	Dean Esam <twist@******.EDU.AU>
Subject:	Re: ADMIN: Formating
Date:	Tue, 4 Oct 1994 18:22:54 +1000

On Tue, 4 Oct 1994, Wow, Reality. That's a switch wrote:

> I keep logs of certain storylines, and the lack of format is a real headache
> for me. What follows is probably unnecessarily harsh, but I just finished
> debugging 600+ lines of shadowtk material, with corrections almost on
> every &%$@*** line.

Ok, before I get down to flames, could someone drop me a line
concerning where the logs are kept... I know it's probably in the FAQ, but
I dont have a copy on hand.

> Plus, we will find you and hurt you if you don't

Boy isn't that scary!!!

> This is where a lot of my headaches come from.
> More specifically, it's
>
> -- ID < hh:mm:ss/mm-dd-yy >
>
> NOT:
>
> -- ID(hh:mm:ss/dd-mm-yy)
> or -ID <hh-mm-ss/mm.dd.yy>
>
> to name some of the more pronounced offenses
>
> Everybody got it?

I agree this can be annoying, but most of the times I notice, it is
new people, and they soon get the hang of it. Nice condescending tone to
your post though, bet everyone who reads it immeadiately makes sure they
post T/D's the right way.

> NOT Day-month. And don't forget the zeros those first nine days of the
> month!!! Or, for that matter, the first nine months of the year!!!
>
> BTW, the European format is dd-MON-yy
> for example, today is 03-OCT-94, and my birthday is 23-MAR-73
> (Mark it down, and send me presents!) =}
> ...hey, is there an official position on using the Euro format?

Ummm, not likely... in regards to the bit about sending you
presents, incidently, you were born one year and one day before me...
(Scary isn't it!!!)

> THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE YOU!!!!!
> Where exactly did a lunatic toxic shaman, for one, learn to do this?
>
> Admittedly, this problem is not as bad as it used to be.

In response to hacking T/D stamps, one of my pet peeves also, in this,
at least I agree with you...

> One more pet peeve: BUY A $#@& DICTIONARY!! The level of spelling and grammar
> on this board would shame a 5th-grader.
> There, Their, and They're are not interchangable! Neither are its and it's!
> ONE SPACE after a comma or period, not two!
> I COULD go on.

Well of all your ill directed moaning, this is the facet of which
I am, more than likely, most guilty. But hey get a life, the characters
are people too, I realise it must be inconceivable to you that they could
mis-spell words... (There is probably even spelling mistakes in this
reply *gasp*, but, to tell you the truth, I don't care!)

> Mike Knabusch, the guy who collected a database of all your addresses
> and phone numbers, lives right down the hall from me, and we spend a
> lot of time cruising the datalines together. The point, you ask?
> I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE.

So what, I don't believe I gave my address to said person, and
even if I did it's a hell of a long trip just to chew me out over
spelling. (Actually if you really want, just send me half what the trip
would cost, and I'll beat myself up!)

> Slainte'!
> Phelan

Hmm, last I heard Jason was the ShadowTK moderator, unless your
post was actually intended as a flame at Mr. Carter (and boy, isn't that
a loaded question 8), it was just as pointless as this reply. (Doesn't
that put you in bad company?)


Twist.

P.S. Sorry to everyone else, I rarely flame, but Mr. Phelan's post seemed
slightly too acidic to be constructive, after all, we are all here
primarily to have some fun.

P.P.S. Personally I think Jason, and Robert and Doom all do a wonderfull
job, and any inference to the opposite made by me, in this life or
any other is not intended.

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