Lyle, please!!!

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minerva nine - 23 Feb 2005 18:51 GMT

If you MUST have a boilerplate post, would you PLEASE at least make it
grammatically correct? It's driving me mad.

This sentence:

"We don't want advertising in this newsgroup, and we don't patronize
anyone who does so."

Should read:

"We don't want advertising in this newsgroup, and we don't patronize anyone
who advertises here."

"anyone who does so" does not agree with "we don't want advertising in this
newsgroup."

I'm begging you.

M9

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Nehmo Sergheyev - 23 Feb 2005 21:47 GMT

- minerva nine -

> If you MUST have a boilerplate post, would you PLEASE at least make it
> grammatically correct? It's driving me mad.
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>
> "We don't want advertising in this newsgroup, and we don't patronize

anyone

> who advertises here."
>
> "anyone who does so" does not agree with "we don't want advertising in this
> newsgroup."

- Nehmo -
Or, "We don't want anyone advertising in this newsgroup, and we don't
patronize anyone who does."
But I betcha he won't make the correction. He *wants* people to think of
him as rude, stubborn, and childish, so why would he correct a
grammatical error? In his case, the error helps what he wants to do.

Personally, unless I stumble across him in Google, I'm blind to what he
does.
In Outlook Express, Select post > Message menu > Block Sender... > Yes
button. Once you've done that, you'll find reading the NG is much less
annoying.

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Homeowner Forum / Construction / February 2005

Lyle, please!!!