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From: Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Whats left of Usenet?
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 21:25:53 -0500
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On 8/30/2016 20:45, Johnny B Good wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 22:53:28 +0000, Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 22:50:28 GMT Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>  I haven't tried posted from them but it works well ....
>>
>> "posting" damn it , "posting".
>
>  Don't worry, I think we *all* realised that you meant "posting". :-)
>
>  Usenet, after all, is one of Murphy's many 'playgrounds' (he almost got
> me to type "playgrounfs" just then - he's a tricky bugger is Murphy;
> always trying to make me mix up "s" and "d" - he might have made me
> switch the "s" and the "d" around just then but it wouldn't in this case
> have mattered one jot, except I just spotted the lack of the second "me"
> when I proof read the preceding text of this overly long sentence).
>
>  You have to proof read with extreme diligence whenever writing about
> Murphy's influence (like just now when I had to change "reading" into
> "read". :-)
>
>  I've taken one Hell of a risk in typing this but I think I've gotten
> away with it - I won't know for certain of course, until I read it
> *after* I've posted this follow up. :-(
>

I try, most of the time, to read "Typo" where "English" was expected

But I WOULD like to know why it is that most of my own typos are not 
visible to me until somebody quotes me (even without reference to the 
typo).

-- 
quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
-- Juvenal