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Re: mail rules (WAS Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks)



begin  Daniel Toffetti quotation:
> 
> The spellchecker is pretty, but hardly useful enough as to require it 
> to post to the list.

It can in fact be detrimental for non-Native speakers, because if the
spell checker suggests a word that is not at all what you meant, you
might go "oh, is that what it is?  OK." and pick something bizarre.

A spell checker is a technical solution to a social problem, and you
should only use those when the social solution isn't working.


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